Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ardagh Glass Inc., 1000 N. Mission Street, SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA 74066
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was changing a link in a chain on a set of rollers when a pallet of finished product was pushed onto the roller set being worked on. This caused the sprocket to move on the chain, pulling the employee's left index finger in and amputating it to the middle knuckle.
HospitalizedAmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Conveyors-gravity and nonpowered, unspecified
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