Partial Finger Amputation Event at the Argonne National Laboratory
Office of Enterprise Assessments
September 25, 2025
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September 2025,
Partial Finger Amputation Event at the Argonne National Laboratory
On September 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Enterprise Assessment’s Office of Enforcement entered into a negotiated settlement by Consent Order with UChicago Argonne, LLC (WCO-2025-02), to resolve worker safety and health issues that were identified during an investigation pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 851.40 Investigations and inspections related to a finger crush injury sustained by a worker, which led to a partial amputation of a finger while performing decommissioning and demolition work at the Argonne National Laboratory.