Amputations

Name: Amputations at Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Deer Park Incinerator
Start: 7/18/2021

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2021075878 · 7/18/2021 · Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Deer Park Incinerator

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
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: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Employer

Name: Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Deer Park Incinerator
Location: 2027 Independence Parkway, LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
NAICS: 562112
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was placing a large bulk bag that weighed approximately 1000 lbs. onto a pre-positioned pallet utilizing four eye rings attached to the bulk bag when his right thumb was caught between the forklift tine and the bulk bag ring resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Source

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