Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Defense Commissary Agency, 102 Levitow AVE, CANNON AFB, NEW MEXICO 88103
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was cutting meat. While using the push plate with her right hand, her left hand slipped between the blade and the meat. The blade grabbed her cotton glove, fracturing and amputating her left ring fingertip.
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