Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Wolfgang Operations LLC, 122 North Street, YORK, PENNSYLVANIA 17403
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Thumb(s).
Final narrative
An employee was performing maintenance on a cake decorating line when his glove became caught in the wire mesh conveyor and it pulled his right thumb into the rotating parts of the chocolate feeder tube. The employee sustained an avulsion with a partial amputation of the thumb.
Amputation Thumb(s) Food and beverage processing machinery n.e.c.
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