Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Palmer Manufacturing and Supply, Inc., 18 North Bechtle Avenue, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 45504
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was sanding the end of a 1-inch-wide, 1/4-inch-thick, 12- to 13-inch-long rod on a pedestal grinder using a sanding disk attachment. The sanding disk caught the rod and pulled it toward the machine, causing the employee's gloved left hand to come into contact with the sanding disk. The employee's thumb tip was amputated to the cuticle.
AmputationFingertip(s)Sanders-powered
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