Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at O'Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, 804 East Veterans Boulevard, PALMVIEW, TEXAS 78572
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was turning a brake rotor and went to adjust the cutter teeth of the brake lathe when his gloved left middle finger was pulled into the cutting tooth. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation halfway through the nail.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Lathes
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