Amputations

Name: Amputations at Dixie Converting Corporation
Start: 4/14/2020

1 amputation · 2020043409 · 4/14/2020 · Dixie Converting Corporation

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, unspecified
Source: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
Secondary source: Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Dixie Converting Corporation
Location: 889 Blandenburg Road, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, 30116
NAICS: 322299
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was clearing an opening to run bailer wire around a cardboard bail when the up-right bailer machine cycled. The one-foot long iron bar tool he was holding shifted and caught his left pinky finger against the bailer machine resulting in an amputation.

Source

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