Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Georgia Envelope & Converting LLC, 8015 Second Flag Dr, AUSTELL, GEORGIA 30168
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was operating a paper cutter machine that cuts and folds paper into envelopes of different sizes. Part of the process is to stick adhesive onto the envelopes. The adhesive is poured into a reservoir located directly underneath a set of gears (sprockets). The operator was trying to remove a piece of paper that had fallen onto the reservoir when their right index finger was caught in the gears and amputated.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Paper production machinery, unspecified
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