Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Name: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified at ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
Start: 3/19/2025

1 amputation · 2025032634 · 3/19/2025 · ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Cause

Event: Struck by falling part of vehicle or machine, still attached
Source: Gates, hatches vehicle and machine cargo
Secondary source: Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery unspecified

Employer

Name: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
Location: 6875 Parkland Blvd, SOLON, OHIO, 44139
NAICS: 325180
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was loading a magazine of tubes into a machine to fill. As they raised the door into position, the door dropped onto the employee's right hand and amputated their right index fingertip at the nailbed.

Source

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