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Amputations
1 amputation · 2015118859 · 11/23/2015 · Mid-Kansas Cooperative Association
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 0
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Fingertip(s)
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- Source
- Conveyors-powered, n.e.c.
Employer
- Name
- Mid-Kansas Cooperative Association
- Location
- 312 E. Lincoln St., LINDSBORG, KANSAS, 67456
- NAICS
- 424510
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was cleaning/unclogging the cyclone when his middle finger got caught in the machine. His fingertip had to be surgically amputated.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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