Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at BYU Idaho, 525 South Center Street, REXBURG, IDAHO 83460
on , Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was smoothing burs off of a piece of metal using a disc sander. The metal got caught and pulled the employee's right thumb into the sander, peeling the skin back. The tip of the bone was removed during subsequent surgery.