Amputations

Name: Amputations at StarKist Company
Start: 8/9/2023

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2023087251 · 8/9/2023 · StarKist Company

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
Source: Bottling, canning, filling machinery

Employer

Name: StarKist Company
Location: Main Road at Atu'u, PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA, 96799
NAICS: 311711
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was pushing pieces of fish into a filler machine when her fingers contacted the knife of the filler machine. The employee's index and ring fingers were amputated.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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