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Amputations
1 amputation · 2019077246 · 7/17/2019 · Packers Sanitation Services, 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
- Meat grinders
Employer
- Name
- Packers Sanitation Services, Inc.
- Location
- 2650 West Chase Ave, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53207
- NAICS
- 561720
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was sanitizing equipment when the auger from a meat grinder amputated their right index finger. The machine was energized at the time.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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