Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Progreso LMMM Corpus Christi #1, LLC, 4214 Ayers Street, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 78415
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was using a meat saw to cut pork product for sale and suffered a fractured finger and an amputation of the little fingertip.
HospitalizedAmputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Butchering machinery
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