Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Gund Company, Inc., 809 Phillip Drive, WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN 53186
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was unjamming a piece on a shape pultrusion line. Once the piece was trimmed back, an employee realigned the second puller on the line so that the cured piece could pass through the second puller. When the cycle was engaged, the machine amputated the tip of the employee's right thumb.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery n.e.c.
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