Amputations

Name: Amputations at Gemstone Foods, LLC
Start: 10/31/2022

1 amputation · 2022109524 · 10/31/2022 · Gemstone Foods, LLC

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 during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Conveyors-powered, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Gemstone Foods, LLC
Location: 700 S Wood Ave, FLORENCE, ALABAMA, 35630
NAICS: 311615
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was realigning a jammed box on a knuckle boom conveyor. The conveyor caught her right hand, causing partial amputations to the middle finger at the middle joint and the little finger at the proximal joint.

Source

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