Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Avulsions, enucleations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND, 400 MARSHALL RD., PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII 96860
on — Avulsions, enucleations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was placing a channel iron inside an automated vise to secure the iron for cutting with a bandsaw. The vise automatically closed while the employee's left ring finger was between it and the channel iron causing an avulsion injury and hospitalization.
HospitalizedFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedMaterial and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
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