Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc., 601 Third St., LAMPASAS, TEXAS 76550
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was disassembling a dull extruder machine when the machine's plate crushed the employee's left ring and middle fingers, fracturing one and crushing the bone in the other. Both fingers had to be surgically amputated above the first knuckle.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
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