Struck by door, gate, window · Amputations involving bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp., 1 sweet applewood lane, CUDAHY, WISCONSIN 53110
on — Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was standing near a doorway, helping pass a flexible hose through a window when the door closed on his right middle finger. He suffered a non-displaced fracture to the last joint of the finger and a partial amputation through the distal phalanx.
Amputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Doors swinging and sliding
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