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Amputations involving bone loss

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2024010064 · 1/3/2024 · Eaton's Cooper Power System

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
1
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
Nature of injury
Amputations involving bone loss

Cause

Event
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation
Source
Bending, crimping machinery
Secondary source
Other source, secondary source n.e.c.

Employer

Name
Eaton's Cooper Power System
Location
2800 9th Avenue, SOUTH MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53172
NAICS
335999
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was using a pneumatic benchtop-mounted crimper to crimp a terminal onto a wire. As the employee held the wire with their right hand, the crimper actuated and caught their right index fingertip in its jaws. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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