Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Twin Rivers Paper Company LLC, 82 Bridge Avenue, MADAWASKA, MAINE 04756
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was helping others tuck a new sheet onto a re-reeling machine spool. His right hand got caught in the spool, and the machine pinched his middle, ring, and little fingers. He was hospitalized and his little finger was surgically removed just above the nail.
HospitalizedAmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedSpecial process machinery, unspecified
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