105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI—

LOREN COOK COMPANY

Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Final narrative

An employee was lifting a fan part with a jib crane to take it from vertical to horizontal. The part, a large hollow steel cylinder with a flange on each end, was attached with lifting lugs and two lifting straps on either side of it in and upside-down V coming down from the crane hook. As the part was rotated, the employee's right hand was caught between the flange and a lifting strap and two right-hand fingers were crushed. The employee suffered an amputation to the ring fingertip, as well as a laceration/crush injury to the middle finger.

Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Cranes n.e.c.

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