Amputations

Name: Amputations at J & A Pallets Service, Inc.
Start: 1/25/2020

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2020010823 · 1/25/2020 · J & A Pallets Service, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
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: Boring, routing, notching machines

Employer

Name: J & A Pallets Service, Inc.
Location: 1225 Arnold Street, CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS, 60411
NAICS: 321920
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was putting notches in 2x4 wooden boards with a woodcutting notching machine when the machine amputated two middle fingers and part of the pinky finger on the employee's right hand.

Source

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