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Amputations
1 amputation · 2015107788 · 10/19/2015 · Portage Plastics Corporation
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 running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- Source
- Grinders, abraders
Employer
- Name
- Portage Plastics Corporation
- Location
- 3000 Boeck Road, PORTAGE, WISCONSIN, 53901
- NAICS
- 326199
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was clearing a jam in a plastic grinder while the machine was running and three fingers were amputated. The machine was not locked out.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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