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Amputations involving bone loss
1 amputation · 2024109579 · 10/15/2024 · Father Flanagan's Boys Home
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
- Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning
- Source
- Fans, blowers wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
- Secondary source
- High winds, gusts, turbulence
Employer
- Name
- Father Flanagan's Boys Home
- Location
- 14092 Hospital RD., BOYS TOWN, NEBRASKA, 68010
- NAICS
- 623990
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
During maintenance work on an exterior fan, wind gusts caused the fan to rotate. The fan pulley system amputated two of an employee's fingers.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown