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Amputations
1 amputation · 2018043742 · 4/19/2018 · Wheeler Tank Manufacturing, Inc.
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 0
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Fingertip(s)
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- Source
- Sledges, sledgehammers
Employer
- Name
- Wheeler Tank Manufacturing, Inc.
- Location
- 4001 NORTH 4TH AVENUE, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57104
- NAICS
- 332420
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was pounding a header onto a metal tank and struck his hand with a sledgehammer resulting in amputation of the left ring fingertip.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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