Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Warrior Energy Services, Corporation, 415 Fort Cherry Road, MC DONALD, PENNSYLVANIA 15057
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee amputated his fingertip while tearing down a setting tool on the McMaster Pad site.
HospitalizedAmputationFingertip(s)Nonclassifiable
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