Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at IG Design Group Americas, Inc., 1414 Susquehanna Avenue, BERWICK, PENNSYLVANIA 18603
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was working at a laminator machine. As the employee applied a flag to a damaged area of the laminate that was being made, his left hand was pulled into a set of powered metal rollers about 4 inches in diameter and 5 feet wide. He suffered an amputation to the middle fingertip at the first knuckle, as well as loss of nails on several other fingers and severe tissue damage.
HospitalizedAmputationFingertip(s)Special process machinery, n.e.c.
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