Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Solmax Geosynthetics, 1288 Old Cleveland Rd Cornelia, CORNELIA, GEORGIA 30531
on — Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was making a fiber. He used his right hand to smooth the ends of polypropylene yarn and ensure they wrapped evenly onto a beam, spinning at 7 RPM. Some yarn got wrapped around his right middle finger and lacerated the finger and removed the nail, resulting in a distal amputation.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Spinning machinery
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