Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Firehouse Subs, 321 Commerce Dr., PEACHTREE CITY, GEORGIA 30269
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was slicing tomatoes when the slicer blade cut her right index finger, resulting in an amputation of the finger.
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