Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Silgan White Cap Americas, LLC, 350 Jaycee Drive, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA 18202
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was cleaning the coater pan of a press oven when the employee's gloved hand became caught between two moving rollers on the machine. The employee's left pinky and ring fingers were amputated.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
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