Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Leviat, 7000 Will Rogers Blvd, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76140
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was fixing a wire on a metal bending machine when his left ring finger was crushed. The employee sustained an amputation to the left ring fingertip.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Bending, crimping machinery
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