Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Urban Green LLC , 140 58th Street , BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11220
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee amputated a piece of his right pinky finger while cutting a piece of wood.
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