Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Spartech LLC, 698 Browns Ridge Road, OSSIPEE, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03864
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was setting up two extruder lines when their left index finger was caught in a nip point and they sustained a partial fingertip amputation.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Extruding machinery
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