Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Cardinal IG Company, 50 Elmwood Ave, MOUNTAIN TOP, PENNSYLVANIA 18707
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was cleaning an area around a conveyor section in the tempering department when their left thumb contacted a drive shaft with a pulley. The employee was hospitalized and their left thumb was partially amputated.
Amputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Conveyors unspecified
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