Amputations

Name: Amputations at Affordable Interior Systems, Inc.
Start: 10/27/2022

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2022109424 · 10/27/2022 · Affordable Interior Systems, Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Special process machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Affordable Interior Systems, Inc.
Location: 1110 Industrial Blvd, CAMERON, TEXAS, 76520
NAICS: 337211
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a 3-foot-long pipe cleaner brush to clean the rollers on a glue spreader machine. She dropped the pipe cleaner, and while retrieving it her right hand became caught in the rollers resulting in amputation to the ring finger at the second joint.

Source

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