Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at VAUGHN, 26 OLD ELM STREET, SALISBURY, MASSACHUSETTS 01952
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee suffered a thumb amputation, caused by a fan.
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