Amputations

Name: Amputations at Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
Start: 8/7/2020

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2020087472 · 8/7/2020 · Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

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

Employer

Name: Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
Location: 1500 George Wedgworth Way, BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA, 33430
NAICS: 111930
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a lock/latch mechanism when their pinky finger got caught between the piston and the rail of the machine, resulting in amputation of the pinky finger from the knuckle up.

Source

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