Amputations

Name: Amputations at Power Packaging
Start: 10/10/2019

1 amputation · 20191010639 · 10/10/2019 · Power Packaging

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery

Employer

Name: Power Packaging
Location: 803 W. Carrier Pkwy., GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75050
NAICS: 311919
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was rebuilding a chopper assembly for a packaging machine in the maintenance shop. He was hooking up compressed air to test the unit while his left hand was resting against the chopper blade when the blade cut off the fingerprint pad on his left finger.

Source

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