Amputations

Name: Amputations at Wire Rope Works Inc
Start: 1/21/2022

1 amputation · 2022010645 · 1/21/2022 · Wire Rope Works Inc

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
Source: Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)

Employer

Name: Wire Rope Works Inc
Location: 100 MAYNARD ST., WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 17701
NAICS: 332618
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a steel bar to cap on a drum assembly. The bar caught the employee's hand and pulled it up into the framework of the gear system of a nearby stranding machine. The employee's hand was pinched between the bar and the machine's frame, and the employee suffered a fingertip amputation.

Source

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