Amputations involving bone loss

Name: Amputations involving bone loss at New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company
Start: 10/9/2024

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2024109431 · 10/9/2024 · New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Shoulder(s), clavicle(s), scapula(e)
Nature of injury: Amputations involving bone loss

Cause

Event: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation
Source: Material transfer machines construction
Secondary source: Hoppers except confined space

Employer

Name: New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company
Location: PA Turnpike - New Baltimore Construction Project MP 10.6, MANNS CHOICE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15550
NAICS: 237310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was adding an anti-slip foaming agent to a paving transfer machine when the container of foaming agent fell into the machine's hopper. When the employee went to remove the container, his right arm was caught in the machine's rotating blades, resulting in amputation of the arm.

Source

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