Amputations

Name: Amputations at Perryman Company
Start: 4/20/2022

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2022043431 · 4/20/2022 · Perryman Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Perryman Company
Location: 2045 West Pike Street, HOUSTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 15342
NAICS: 332999
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

At about 11:00 a.m. on April 20, 2022, an employee was operating a bar turner machine. As he was closing the shield that covered the machine's spinning cutting heads, it caught his index finger. Part of the finger was medically amputated.

Source

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