Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Thomas Wiedemeier Sawmill, N6480 Riverview Rd, PORTERFIELD, WISCONSIN 54159
on , Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was using a pallet stringer notcher. A piece of pallet stringer became lodged in the machine. The employee was trying to remove it when his glove was caught and his hand was pulled into the blades of the notcher. All four fingers and part of the employee's thumb on the right hand were amputated. The machine was not locked out at the time.