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Amputations
1 amputation · 2016010636 · 1/22/2016 · Calvert Wire and Cable 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
- Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
Employer
- Name
- Calvert Wire and Cable Corporation
- Location
- 4276 Strausser St., NW, NORTH CANTON, OHIO, 44720
- NAICS
- 238990
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
After an employee cleared jammed material from inside a slicing machine, the machine cycled and amputated the employee's right thumb and index finger.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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