Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at International Converter, LLC, 1309 Paul Edmondson Dr, IUKA, MISSISSIPPI 38852
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was hospitalized after his arm got caught between two rollers in the slitter machine.
HospitalizedArm(s), unspecifiedSlitters, winders-paper production
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