PRIMOS, PENNSYLVANIA·2025-01-30

Waste Management

Struck by running powered equipment n.e.c. · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Waste Management, 408 South Oak Avenue, PRIMOS, PENNSYLVANIA 19018 on 2025-01-30, Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).

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Final narrative

An employee was servicing a tire on a garbage truck. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the tire and the impact wrench they were using, and the fingertip was partially amputated.

Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Wrenches, ratchets

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