Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Sarasota Medical Products, Inc., 1451 Sarasota Center Blvd., SARASOTA, FLORIDA 34240
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was operating an automated bagging and packaging machine to bag hydrocolloids. A bag was stuck in the machine. As the employee was removing it, the blade amputated the top of their right index finger.
HospitalizedAmputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Bottling, canning, filling machinery
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