Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Costco Wholesale, 16690 Royalton Rd., STRONGSVILLE, OHIO 44136
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was training to be a meat cutter. As they were learning to cut meat on a band saw, the saw blade contacted his right hand after it slipped on the meat, resulting in partial fingertip amputations of the index and middle fingers.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Butchering machinery
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