Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at METAL CONTAINER CORPORATION, 42 Tenbrook Industrial Drive, ARNOLD, MISSOURI 63010
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was using an aluminum scrap brick clamping bar to move scrap to a pallet when the clamping bar amputated the employee's left middle fingertip.
AmputationFingertip(s)Vises, clamps
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