Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC, 200 Dock Corner Rd, DAYTON, NEW JERSEY 08810
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was hand-feeding the end of a plastic roll into the nip point of a forming roller machine when the machine amputated the employee's left middle finger and partially amputated the left ring finger.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
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