Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at SAM Rhodes Inc., 6200 Co. Rd. 107, SALIDA, COLORADO 81201
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was folding down a ladder to his tanker when it became unsteady and his right index finger became pinched in the ladder. The employee was hospitalized and his fingertip was surgically amputated below the nailbed.
HospitalizedAmputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Tanker trucks
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