Amputations

Name: Amputations at The Giant Company
Start: 3/18/2023

1 amputation · 2023032467 · 3/18/2023 · The Giant Company

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source: Pallet jack-nonpowered
Secondary source: Skids, pallets

Employer

Name: The Giant Company
Location: 1149 Harrisburg Pike, CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 17013
NAICS: 493110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was unloading recyclables and empty pallets when his right ring finger was caught between the pallet jack's grab bar and a wooden pallet, resulting in amputation of flesh underneath the nail to the first knuckle.

Source

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