NEW LONDON, WISCONSIN—
Steel King Industries, Inc.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Steel King Industries, Inc., 325 East Beckert Road, NEW LONDON, WISCONSIN 54961 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was standing on a movable machine bed. The employee reached up to grab a rail and caught her hand in a shear point between a bearing block and the machine frame. Her right hand pinky and ring fingers were amputated to approximately the second joint.
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