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Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
1 amputation · 2024109229 · 10/3/2024 · Utz Quality Foods, Inc.
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 0
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Thumb(s)
- Nature of injury
- Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
Cause
- Event
- Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- Source
- Machinery unspecified
- Secondary source
- Towels, linens, bedding
Employer
- Name
- Utz Quality Foods, Inc.
- Location
- 1437 Broadway, HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17331
- NAICS
- 311919
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was cleaning a chain when their towel became caught in the chain and sprocket, resulting in a partial amputation of their right thumb.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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