Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-04-07 | Gypsum | Colorado | Westco Fabrication, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a machine to bend metal ridge cap shingles. The machine's dies closed on his right hand and crushed the fingers. The ring finger was surgically amputated, as were the middle and little fingertips. | |||||
2016-07-13 | Gypsum | Colorado | American Gypsum | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was changing the end tape in a bundler machine and the employee's hand was in the path of the product. The product pushed his hand into the wall resulting in a partial amputation of his right middle finger. |