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Amputations
1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2016065305 · 6/15/2016 · ACME Brick Company
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Fingertip(s)
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- Source
- Handtools-power not determined, unspecified
- Secondary source
- Machinery, unspecified
Employer
- Name
- ACME Brick Company
- Location
- 1776 Old McDade Rd., ELGIN, TEXAS, 78621
- NAICS
- 327331
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was using a tool to clean equipment when the tool snapped back and caught his left ring finger, amputating the fingertip.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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