Amputations

Name: Amputations at Deflecto, LLC
Start: 9/23/2023

1 amputation · 2023098793 · 9/23/2023 · Deflecto, LLC

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 running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Deflecto, LLC
Location: 303 Oxford Street, DOVER, OHIO, 44622
NAICS: 326130
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An maintenance employee was checking the belt tension on a machine when their right ring finger got caught in the feed belt and the belt pulley. The employee suffered a finger amputation down to the first knuckle. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident, but was not locked out/tagged out.

Source

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