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Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
1 amputation · 2024010265 · 1/11/2024 · Costco Wholesale
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 0
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- Nature of injury
- Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
Cause
- Event
- Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation
- Source
- Other special process machinery n.e.c.
- Secondary source
- Secondary source not applicable
Employer
- Name
- Costco Wholesale
- Location
- 149 State Route 23, WAYNE, NEW JERSEY, 07470
- NAICS
- 452311
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was using a tire changer to put a tire on a rim when his finger was pinched, resulting in an amputation to the fingertip.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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