Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Extrudex Aluminum Inc., 12051 Mahoning Ave., NORTH JACKSON, OHIO 44451
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was adjusting material on a tail stretcher when his right index finger was caught in the tail stretcher's clamp, resulting in an amputation.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedMetal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
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