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Amputations
1 amputation · 2017010818 · 1/26/2017 · Steel Technologies, LLC
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
- Conveyors-chain
- Secondary source
- Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
Employer
- Name
- Steel Technologies, LLC
- Location
- 3301 Mallard Fox Drive, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- NAICS
- 423510
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was working on the motor of the scrap out conveyor when his glove was caught in the chain amputating the right index finger.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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