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Amputations
1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2020010864 · 1/27/2020 · Ritz Instrument Transformers, Inc
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
- Machinery, unspecified
Employer
- Name
- Ritz Instrument Transformers, Inc
- Location
- 25 Hamburg Ave., LAVONIA, GEORGIA, 30553
- NAICS
- 335311
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was using a core-making machine when the machine severely crushed the employee's left index fingertip, resulting in a surgical amputation.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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