Amputations

Name: Amputations at Pandrol
Start: 8/19/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019088528 · 8/19/2019 · Pandrol

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Presses, except printing, unspecified

Employer

Name: Pandrol
Location: 501 Sharptown rd, BRIDGEPORT, NEW JERSEY, 08014
NAICS: 332216
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating a press and proceeded to clean the press. When he removed the bar from the press, the machine activated and pulled his hand into the tooling, cutting his left index finger and resulting in an amputation.

Source

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