Amputations

Name: Amputations at United Parcel Service, Inc.
Start: 7/19/2019

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2019077405 · 7/19/2019 · United Parcel Service, Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
Source: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
Secondary source: Structural elements, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: United Parcel Service, Inc.
Location: 4255 James E. Casey Dr., JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32219
NAICS: 561431
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was pushing a hand cart full of packages to a loading bay when her left ring finger was caught between the hand cart and the building's metal support beam causing the amputation of her left ring fingertip without bone loss.

Source

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