Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at GOLDEN STATE FOODS CORP., 1525 OLD COVINGTON RD,NE, CONYERS, GEORGIA 30012
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was showing a co-worker how to unjam a pneumatic bar in the box drop section of a cup machine when the bar cycled and contacted the employee's right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
AmputationFingertip(s)Special process machinery, unspecified
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