Amputations

Name: Amputations at H-E-B, LP
Start: 8/19/2020

1 amputation · 2020087844 · 8/19/2020 · H-E-B, LP

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: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: H-E-B, LP
Location: 4625 Windfern, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77041
NAICS: 311511
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was cleaning bottles in the trimmer section of a blow mold machine when the employee's finger was caught in the machinery, resulting in a transphalangeal amputation of the right ring finger.

Source

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