Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at EATON CORPORATION, 4200 HIGHWAY 30 EAST, KEARNEY, NEBRASKA 68848
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was attempting to retrieve valves that had fallen below the carriage of an eddy current tester. When he retrieved the valve the carriage of the test machine amputated his left little fingertip.
AmputationFingertip(s)Product testing, inspecting, and diagnostic machinery, n.e.c.
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