Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at York Building Products Company Inc., 5952 Lincoln Highway East, THOMASVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 17364
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An error came up on a pallet receiver table's machine panel and an employee went to the pallet ejector to troubleshoot. The employee was resetting a limit switch when his thumb got caught by a moving chain. The employee suffered a laceration that resulted in a revision amputation.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedMaterial and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
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