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Amputations
1 amputation · 2017065509 · 6/16/2017 · KWS Manufacturing Company
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 0
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Fingertip(s)
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- Source
- Grinders, abraders
Employer
- Name
- KWS Manufacturing Company
- Location
- 3041 Conveyer Drive, BURLESON, TEXAS, 76028
- NAICS
- 332722
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was de-burring an 8-inch x 2-inch piece of steel with a mounted disc grinder when the grinder amputated his right pinky fingertip.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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