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Amputations

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2022010204 · 1/8/2022 · AHF Products, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
1
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury
Amputations

Cause

Event
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source
Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name
AHF Products, LLC
Location
688 Hwy 278 Bypass, WARREN, ARKANSAS, 71671
NAICS
321918
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was trying to clear a jam from a side-matcher machine. The machine's bottom head was still in motion, and its rotating knives amputated the employee's left little finger and lacerated his left ring finger. The employee was hospitalized, and the ring finger was medically amputated.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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