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Amputations
1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2017054444 · 5/16/2017 · Vibration and Shock Technologies
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- Source
- Special process machinery, n.e.c.
Employer
- Name
- Vibration and Shock Technologies
- Location
- 36 6th Road, WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS, 01801
- NAICS
- 333298
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee suffered a thumb amputation while testing a shock absorber machine when the machine dropped on his thumb.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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