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Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
1 amputation · 2024064829 · 6/1/2024 · Arkema Incorporated
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
- Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- Source
- Machinery unspecified
- Secondary source
- Valves, nozzles
Employer
- Name
- Arkema Incorporated
- Location
- 13755 Highway 43 North, AXIS, ALABAMA, 36505
- NAICS
- 325199
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was unclogging a rotary pipe when the rotary valve actuated, amputating his right middle fingertip.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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