Struck by running powered equipment unspecified · Amputations involving bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at L&R Industries - Mechanical Steel Tube Division, Business U.S. Hwy 60 Business, MOUNTAIN GROVE, MISSOURI 65711
on , Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was changing a fixed blade on a scarfing machine and could not get the bit to seat in the correct position. While checking for an obstruction, his middle finger contacted an adjacent piece of machinery, a chopper, that amputated his middle fingertip just behind the nailbed.
AmputationFinger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery unspecified