Amputations

Name: Amputations at Fuyao Glass America
Start: 8/25/2019

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2019088821 · 8/25/2019 · Fuyao Glass America

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Fuyao Glass America
Location: 800 Fuyao Avenue, MORAINE, OHIO, 45439
NAICS: 423120
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was transferring a PVB table from the PVB stretch machine when the middle fingertip on his left hand was compressed between the PVB table and the base of the table holding the PVB table. As a result, he sustained a left middle fingertip tissue amputation (no bone loss or removal of fingernail).

Source

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