Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Cam Innovation, Inc, 215 Philadelphia Street, HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA 17331
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a manual cutting machine and suffered a partial amputation to his left pinky finger while adjusting the die for a 10x10x16 piece of metal.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedMetal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
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