Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Wood Products, Inc., 1002 South 46th Street, GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58201
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was unclogging the sawdust collection system on a gang saw when they sustained amputations to their left middle fingertip and right index fingertip from the spinning turbines in the chute.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Cleaning machinery, appliances n.e.c.
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