Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Greenheck Fan Corporation - Facility 2, 1111 Greenheck Drive, SCHOFIELD, WISCONSIN 54476
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was unjamming a crimping machine and sustained a partial amputation of their right index fingertip.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Bending, crimping machinery
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