Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Radical Cosmetics, LLC, 1401 N 2nd St, FORT PIERCE, FLORIDA 34950
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was unjamming a powder milling machine when one of the employee's left fingers was caught in the machine's rotating parts. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation.
HospitalizedAmputationFingertip(s)Special process machinery, n.e.c.
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