TOLEDO, OHIO—
Kokosing Construction Company, Inc.
Compressed between running equipment and other object(s) · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Kokosing Construction Company, Inc., 215 North St Clair Street, TOLEDO, OHIO 43604 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was rotating a vibratory hammer to extract steel sheeting when his right ring and little fingers got pinched between the hammer and a stationary pipe that was coming up out of the ground next to the steel sheeting. The employee suffered a crush injury to his ring and little fingers as well as a partial amputation of the ring finger.
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