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Amputations

1 amputation · 2023043489 · 4/19/2023 · Utz Quality Foods, LLC

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, unspecified
Source
Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery

Employer

Name
Utz Quality Foods, LLC
Location
1 Golden Flake Drive, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35205
NAICS
311919
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was installing/stringing film around a packaging machine's former when their index finger became caught between the drive belt and pulley. They sustained a crush injury to the fingertip that was medically amputated to the distal joint.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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