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Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
1 amputation · 2024053820 · 5/2/2024 · Down-Lite International, Inc.
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
- Industrial vacuums
- Secondary source
- Secondary source not applicable
Employer
- Name
- Down-Lite International, Inc.
- Location
- 7818 Palace Drive, CINCINNATI, OHIO, 45249
- NAICS
- 424590
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was using a riding sweeper to clean feathers when the rotating blades amputated their left index fingertip.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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