Amputations

Name: Amputations at Yazoo Mills, Incorporated
Start: 5/28/2019

1 amputation · 2019055339 · 5/28/2019 · Yazoo Mills, Incorporated

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Paper production machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Yazoo Mills, Incorporated
Location: 305 Commerce Street, NEW OXFORD, PENNSYLVANIA, 17350
NAICS: 322214
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating a re-cutter machine and turned it off to remove a piece of trim from the mandrel. The machine was not fully stopped before he began to remove the trim and the moving parts contacted his left hand, resulting in a partial left index finger amputation.

Source

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