STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA—
Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lowe's Home Centers, LLC, 160 Curtin Road, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA 16802 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was folding up a lift gate after making a delivery. His thumb was injured between the truck bed and the lift bed. The thumb was partially amputated.
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