"working with a shearing machine when he cut off three fingers...."

 

The cutting and sawing of items in our workplaces is done at most of our workplaces in some way on a daily basis. Here is a recent incident highlighting the hazard when workers are involved in this task or procedure.

Another accident at work. This time it happened in (location omitted), a hamlet in the province of  (name omitted). A worker partially cut off  three fingers of his left hand  while working in a company cutting pieces of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) to be recycled. The accident at work happened in a company specializing in the production of aluminum doors.

According to early reconstructions, the 40-year-old was working with a shearing machine when he cut off three fingers on his right hand. He also injured his head with another work tool. His condition is serious but he would not be in danger of life. The dynamics of the accident are being examined by the carabinieri. The emergency-urgency vehicles of the (name omitted) Local Health Authority arrived on the spot.

We offer our sincere prayers to the injured worker. We hope that the worker is provided with the physical and occupational therapy to recover as much as anyone can with multiple digit amputations.

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