Amputations involving bone loss

Name: Amputations involving bone loss at Midwest Packaging & Container, Inc.
Start: 6/4/2024

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2024064923 · 6/4/2024 · Midwest Packaging & Container, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Other finger(s) n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations involving bone loss

Cause

Event: Struck by running powered equipment unspecified
Source: Industrial printing machinery
Secondary source: Secondary source not applicable

Employer

Name: Midwest Packaging & Container, Inc.
Location: 9718 Forest Hills Rd., MACHESNEY PARK, ILLINOIS, 61115
NAICS: 322211
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was catching a falling die board on a box printer cutter machine when his right hand became caught in the flexo machine. The employee sustained amputations to his index finger at the first knuckle and the middle fingertip above the second knuckle. He was hospitalized.

Source

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