Amputations

Name: Amputations at Wooden Pallets, LTD.
Start: 6/10/2021

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2021064730 · 6/10/2021 · Wooden Pallets, LTD.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Planing mills

Employer

Name: Wooden Pallets, LTD.
Location: 3840 Henry Read Rd., SILSBEE, TEXAS, 77656
NAICS: 321920
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee shut off a planer machine and lifted the door to free a jammed board. The centrifugal force of the cutter head was still moving and when he pulled the board back, the cutter head caught his right hand, resulting in four finger amputations and a laceration to the thumb.

Source

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