Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations involving bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Prysmian Group Specialty Cables LLC, 656 Joseph E. Warner Blvd., TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02780
on — Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was cleaning the gear pump in the front of the compound mixing machine when his left hand was caught in the turning gears causing an amputation to his left index finger below the fingernail at the distal phalange.
HospitalizedAmputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Other metal, wood, and special material machinery n.e.c.
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