Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Georgia Right-of-Way Company, 467 Faust Farm Rd, CRAWFORD, GEORGIA 30630
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was pulling out the winch rope on a hand-fed chipper with a winch. The rope was tightened and it caught his left hand, partially amputating his index fingertip and lacerating his index, middle and ring fingers.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Chippers
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