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Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2025076874 · 7/16/2025 · Hudco Manufacturing Inc

Severity

Hospitalized
1
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
Lathes
Secondary source
Sanders handtool

Employer

Name
Hudco Manufacturing Inc
Location
38250 Western Parkway, WILLOUGHBY, OHIO, 44094
NAICS
332710
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was sanding a metal tube with sandpaper on a lathe when the sandpaper got caught and wrapped around the tube. The employee's gloved left hand became caught in the lath and he suffered an amputation to the tip of his left thumb and severe tendon/nerve damage to his left arm. He was hospitalized.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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