Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Super 1 Foods, 939 South Lewis Street, NEW IBERIA, LOUISIANA 70560
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was cutting meat using a bandsaw and amputated his left index fingertip.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Butchering machinery
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