Pedestrian incidents involving motorized land vehicles, n.e.c. · Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Amerit Fleet Solutions, 6120 South Meadows Drive, GROVE CITY, OHIO 43123
on — Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss, affecting the Thumb(s).
Final narrative
The injured employee was securing a dolly to the back of a shop switcher (vehicle). The employee was closing the pintle hook on the dolly when the vehicle began driving. The injured employee was caught in the pintle, resulting in an amputation to their thumb without bone loss.
Amputation Thumb(s) Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport powered, n.e.c.
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