Injured by object handled by person n.e.c. · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Sun Mountain Lumber, 5284 US-Hwy 89 South, LIVINGSTON, MONTANA 59047
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was using his left arm to pull a piece of lumber from a chain, which was on his right side, to stack it on a lumber bunk positioned to his left. His left middle fingertip was crushed between the end of the lumber he was moving and the stationary lumber stack behind him, resulting in an amputation.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Dimensional lumber
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