Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Haynes International, Inc., 3786 Second Street, ARCADIA, LOUISIANA 71001
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was using a metal lathe to cut 14-inch samples off of titanium tubes when his right glove was caught by the tube and pulled into the lathe. The employee was hospitalized with a partial amputation to the little finger and dislocations to the middle and ring fingers; the ring finger required surgery.
HospitalizedAmputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Lathes
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