Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Chemtrade Solutions LLC, 24 Industrial Parkway, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 13204
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was clearing a product flow restriction when the rotating valve activated. They sustained amputations to their left middle and index fingers.
Amputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Machinery unspecified
An employee drank water from a water cooler in the control room that was contaminated with sodium nitrite. The employee sustained methemoglobinemia and was hospitalized.
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