Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at NEPW Logistics Inc, 66 Saratoga Boulevard, DEVENS, MASSACHUSETTS 01434
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee went to fix the paper at the wrap station that was not coming down normally. He went to pull the paper down and his right thumb was pulled into the roller of the machine, amputating the thumb tip.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
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