Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Golub Corporation, Market 32 #135, DUNMORE, PENNSYLVANIA 18512
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was cutting a piece of bone-in pork on a band saw and went to adjust the meat when their left middle finger contacted the blade and was lacerated/amputated.
Amputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Butchering machinery
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