Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Tyler Pipe Company, 11910 County Road 492, TYLER, TEXAS 75703
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was shot blasting cast iron fittings. He was unjamming the blast machine and when the auger was freed it amputated his right middle fingertip.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Sandblasting machinery
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