Amputations

Name: Amputations at Knife River Corporation
Start: 5/8/2020

1 amputation · 2020054313 · 5/8/2020 · Knife River Corporation

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Chutes
Secondary source: Cement truck, concrete mixer truck

Employer

Name: Knife River Corporation
Location: 1102 Steamboat Dr., HEWITT, TEXAS, 76643
NAICS: 238110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

On 5/08/2020, at 09:30 AM, an employee was delivering concrete to a construction site and installing the metal chutes on his ready mix truck when his right two middle fingers were pinched between chutes. As a result, he sustained a partial traumatic transphalangeal amputation of his right middle finger.

Source

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