Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Piedmont Athens Regional-Laundry Facility, 1655 West Broad Street, ATHENS, GEORGIA 30606
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was greasing the bearing on a sheet stacker machine when the machine's chain pulled his gloved right hand into the moving sprocket, amputating his right index and middle fingers to the second knuckle and partially amputating his thumb. The machine was running at the time of the incident.
HospitalizedAmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
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An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.
An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
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