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Amputations
1 amputation · 2017109463 · 10/2/2017 · Gilton Solid Waste Management, Inc.
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
- Special process machinery, n.e.c.
Employer
- Name
- Gilton Solid Waste Management, Inc.
- Location
- 1859 W 20th, JOPLIN, MISSOURI, 64804
- NAICS
- 562111
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was clearing a dust clog at a cyclone rotary valve when the valve amputated the three middle fingers of the employee's left hand.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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