Amputations

Name: Amputations at Abbott Laboratories
Start: 4/22/2019

1 amputation · 2019044083 · 4/22/2019 · Abbott Laboratories

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
Source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Employer

Name: Abbott Laboratories
Location: 100 Abbott Park Road, ABBOTT PARK, ILLINOIS, 60064
NAICS: 621999
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was working on the motor of a stand up order picker and ran the drive to allow the brushes to break in. The employee was walking around the order picker, tripped and fell, catching his hand in the rotating metal cooling fan and sustaining a fingertip amputation.

Source

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