Amputations involving bone loss

Name: Amputations involving bone loss at General Technologies
Start: 3/24/2025

1 amputation · 2025032770 · 3/24/2025 · General Technologies

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations involving bone loss

Cause

Event: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation
Source: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery unspecified
Secondary source: Cleaning handtools n.e.c.

Employer

Name: General Technologies
Location: 704 W. Simonds Road, SEAGOVILLE, TEXAS, 75159
NAICS: 327390
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was loading bar stock into a screw machine when a rag was caught in the machine's spindle and twisted around the employee's right little finger. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip at the first knuckle.

Source

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