Amputations

Name: Amputations at Southern Mills, Inc.
Start: 8/1/2022

1 amputation · 2022086724 · 8/1/2022 · Southern Mills, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
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, unspecified
Source: Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Southern Mills, Inc.
Location: 74 Andrews Parkway, SENOIA, GEORGIA, 30276
NAICS: 314129
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was repairing a yarn break. A filament of yarn waste from a package wrapped around the employee's thumb and a nearby, rotating, pre-tensioning shaft. Due to the strength of the filament yarn, the employee's right thumb was partially amputated.

Source

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