Amputations involving bone loss

Name: Amputations involving bone loss at Alabama Power Co
Start: 7/18/2024

1 amputation · 2024076541 · 7/18/2024 · Alabama Power Co

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
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 during maintenance, cleaning, testing
Source: Machinery unspecified
Secondary source: Valves, nozzles

Employer

Name: Alabama Power Co
Location: 744 County Road 87, CALERA, ALABAMA, 35040
NAICS: 221122
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was vacuuming a rotary valve system. Believing that a piece of the vacuum had fallen off into the rotary valve, he was retrieving the piece when the system actuated and amputated his left middle finger.

Source

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