SALEM, OHIO—
Korff Holdings, LLC
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
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Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Korff Holdings, LLC, 310 EAST EUCLID STREET, SALEM, OHIO 44460 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was working on a dust collector motor. The employee was manually moving the pulley motor when his finger was caught between the pulley and the belt. The employee's finger was amputated at the first knuckle at the hospital.
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