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Amputations
1 amputation · 2017109595 · 10/6/2017 · Knouse Foods Cooperative 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
- Pumps
Employer
- Name
- Knouse Foods Cooperative Inc.
- Location
- 450 Gardners Station Road, GARDNERS, PENNSYLVANIA, 17324
- NAICS
- 311421
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was attempting to retrieve a gasket that fell inside a pump housing when the pump amputated his left middle and ring fingers.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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