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Amputations involving bone loss

1 amputation · 2025021435 · 2/13/2025 · L&R Industries - Mechanical Steel Tube Division

Severity

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

Cause

Event
Struck by running powered equipment unspecified
Source
Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery unspecified
Secondary source
Secondary source not applicable

Employer

Name
L&R Industries - Mechanical Steel Tube Division
Location
Business U.S. Hwy 60 Business, MOUNTAIN GROVE, MISSOURI, 65711
NAICS
333249
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was changing a fixed blade on a scarfing machine and could not get the bit to seat in the correct position. While checking for an obstruction, his middle finger contacted an adjacent piece of machinery, a chopper, that amputated his middle fingertip just behind the nailbed.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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