Amputations

Name: Amputations at Vertex Fasteners
Start: 9/25/2020

1 amputation · 2020099116 · 9/25/2020 · Vertex Fasteners

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source: Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Vertex Fasteners
Location: 1798 Sherwin Ave., DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, 60018
NAICS: 332710
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was setting a coil of steel on an arbor of a steel slitting machine. As he was picking up something on the floor, an opening of the arbor caught his right ring finger, causing the amputation of the fingertip.

Source

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