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Amputations
1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2018010248 · 1/9/2018 · Underwriters Laboratories
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Fingertip(s)
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- Source
- Metalworking lathes
Employer
- Name
- Underwriters Laboratories
- Location
- 1285 Walt Whitman Rd., MELVILLE, NEW YORK, 11747
- NAICS
- 541711
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was using a lathe to test a piece of steel when the employee's hand became caught in the moving lathe, amputating a fingertip.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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