Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Amalgamate Processing Inc., 3800 SE Industrial Parkway, MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS 76067
on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
The employee was operating a peeler machine when his left hand got caught against the log that was being peeled. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations to the fingers on his left hand that required stitches.
Hospitalized Other finger(s) n.e.c. Log processing machinery
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