ALICE, TEXAS—
FESCO, Ltd
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at FESCO, Ltd, 1501 E. Main Street, ALICE, TEXAS 78332 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
The injured employee had his left hand on a forklift, signaling to the operator to lower the forks due to an unbalanced situation with a parts catcher screen assembly. In the process of lowering the forks the screen assembly shifted smashing the tip of the employees index finger on his left hand between the bonnet of the manual valve of the screen assembly and the forks.
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