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Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

1 amputation · 2025043935 · 4/28/2025 · United States Sugar Savannah Refinery, LLC

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
Stacking machinery
Secondary source
Combustion engine blocks, cylinders, pistons

Employer

Name
United States Sugar Savannah Refinery, LLC
Location
201 Oxnard Drive, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 31407
NAICS
311314
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

While explaining to a co-worker how to install a new gate on the palletizer machine, an employee's left thumb tip was amputated by the machine's piston.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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