Amputations

Name: Amputations at New Hampshire Plastics, Inc.
Start: 10/30/2019

1 amputation · 20191011274 · 10/30/2019 · New Hampshire Plastics, Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source: Extruding machinery

Employer

Name: New Hampshire Plastics, Inc.
Location: 315 Bouchard Street, MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03103
NAICS: 325211
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was working as an assistant on the extrusion line, pulling plastic out from the machine. The roller was dropped on the injured employee's right hand, crushing two fingers between the machine's rollers. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the ring and middle fingers.

Source

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