Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at SVC Manufacturing, Inc., SVC Manufacturing Inc, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30336
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was helping to clear a pallet jam in a pallet exchange machine when the pallet machine released and pinched his left middle fingertip, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
AmputationFingertip(s)Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
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