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Amputations
1 amputation · 2020109465 · 10/5/2020 · Akorn, Inc.
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 0
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- Source
- Bottling, canning, filling machinery
Employer
- Name
- Akorn, Inc.
- Location
- 72 Veronica Avenue, SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY, 08873
- NAICS
- 325412
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
While cleaning a tube filling machine, an employee suffered a partial amputation on a left-hand finger when the machine was jogged.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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