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Amputations

1 hospitalization · 2019010537 · 1/16/2019 · Poly-America, LP

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
0
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury
Amputations

Cause

Event
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source
Product labeling machinery

Employer

Name
Poly-America, LP
Location
2000 W. Marshall Dr., GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75051
NAICS
325211
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was using a tabletop date code stamper to record information on cardboard packaging when his finger was caught between the stamper head and base of the stamper, resulting in a finger amputation. The plexiglass face had been removed from the stamp at the time of the incident.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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