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Amputations
1 amputation · 2015053134 · 5/25/2015 · Waupaca Foundry Inc. (Plant 2,3)
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 0
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- Source
- Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
Employer
- Name
- Waupaca Foundry Inc. (Plant 2,3)
- Location
- 1955 Brunner Drive, WAUPACA, WISCONSIN, 54981
- NAICS
- 331511
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee's right thumb was pinched between the pattern hanger bar and the base of the machine swing arm on a vertical molding machine.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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