Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Georgia Pacific Consumer Products, LP., 437 Old Augusta Road South, RINCON, GEORGIA 31326
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was training a new employee on the operation of a napkin folding machine when he heard a noise that concerned him and asked the trainee to bump the conveyor leading out of the machine. The employee went behind the machine to investigate and slipped as the trainee was bumping the conveyor. His left thumb was subsequently caught between the belt and a timing gear, damaging the bone and tissue. His thumb tip was amputated directly below the nailbed.
AmputationFingertip(s)Paper production machinery, n.e.c.
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