Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at JCG Foods of Alabama LLC, 764 George Cagle Drive, COLLINSVILLE, ALABAMA 35961
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was attempting to free a drive that was stuck inside of a jammed strapping machine when his fingers got pulled in between the timing belt and the pulley, resulting in a fingertip amputation on his left hand.
AmputationFingertip(s)Special process machinery, unspecified
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