Amputations

Name: Amputations at U. S. Postal Service
Start: 1/9/2019

1 amputation · 2019010261 · 1/9/2019 · U. S. Postal Service

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source: Garage doors

Employer

Name: U. S. Postal Service
Location: 1301 Stampede Avenue, CODY, WYOMING, 82414
NAICS: 491110
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

An employee was conducting maintenance work on an overhead garage door when the employee's thumb was caught in the overhead door's chain drive, resulting in a partial left thumb amputation.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown