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Amputations
1 amputation · 2020098877 · 9/18/2020 · Western Industries Corporation
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 0
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Fingertip(s)
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- Source
- Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
Employer
- Name
- Western Industries Corporation
- Location
- 2530 S. Southeast Drive, WICHITA, KANSAS, 67216
- NAICS
- 321920
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was cleaning a resaw machine and amputated their index fingertip. The index finger was also fractured.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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