Amputations

Name: Amputations at JOHN VOLPI & COMPANY
Start: 12/9/2019

1 amputation · 20191212620 · 12/9/2019 · JOHN VOLPI & COMPANY

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery

Employer

Name: JOHN VOLPI & COMPANY
Location: 5263 Northrup Ave., SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63110
NAICS: 311999
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was making a routine adjustment on the slicing line of a repack machine when the machine's cross-cutting knife amputated the employee's middle and ring fingers near the first knuckle.

Source

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