GARDEN CITY, KANSAS—
Tetra Pak Materials LLC
Compressed between running equipment and other object(s) · Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Tetra Pak Materials LLC, 330 US-83, GARDEN CITY, KANSAS 67846 on — Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
Employees were conducting an annual separator service for a customer. An engineer was replacing a sliding bowl into a separator when his left thumb was pinched between the sliding bowl and the bowl body as a crane lifted it. His thumb tip was amputated above the bone.
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