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Amputations

1 amputation · 2019054653 · 5/7/2019 · New Method Packaging LLC

Severity

Hospitalized
0
Amputation
1
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury
Amputations

Cause

Event
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source
Paper production machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name
New Method Packaging LLC
Location
1805 Commerce Rd., SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, 45504
NAICS
322211
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was cleaning a rotary die cutter machine, which takes sheets of corrugated cardboard and cuts out pizza boxes. The employee was cleaning out ink that accumulates at the side section of the ink metering rolls and suffered a partial amputation of the right index finger below the nail. The machine was not locked out at the time.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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