Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC, 2800 Old Springfield Road, VANDALIA, OHIO 45377
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was performing a paper roll change at a paper sheeter machine. He was turning a non-driven unwind stand and the roll by hand when his left little fingertip got pinched between a machine depression in the chuck and the sensor. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Cutters, slitters, winders paper production
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