Struck by running powered equipment unspecified · Amputations involving bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Oklahoma Steel & Wire Co., LLC, 1297 Smiley Rd, MADILL, OKLAHOMA 73446
on , Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was changing out a carrier wire rod on the takeoff arm at the fine wire galvanizing line. The takeoff arm began to swing toward the employee and they went to stop it, when their right index finger was caught between the swing and takeoff arm in a 2 metal tubing bracket, resulting in amputation to the first knuckle.
AmputationFinger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)Painting, priming, metal coating machinery
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