Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Shirley's Cookie Company Inc., 153 Ward Drive - William Ward Industrial Park , CLAYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 16625
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was working on a machine and had a part of her right index finger amputated when it got caught in a cylinder of the machine.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedSpecial process machinery, unspecified
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