Amputations

Name: Amputations at M.C. Dixon Lumber Company, Inc.
Start: 8/12/2021

1 amputation · 2021086846 · 8/12/2021 · M.C. Dixon Lumber Company, Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Conveyors-belt

Employer

Name: M.C. Dixon Lumber Company, Inc.
Location: 536 West Boundary St, EUFAULA, ALABAMA, 36027
NAICS: 321113
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was placing waste wood onto a 30-inch-wide, 20-foot-long conveyor. The employee was trying to remove a piece of wood that had hung up in the conveyor's bottom belt when the conveyor caught his hand and amputated his right arm at the shoulder.

Source

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