BUCKS, ALABAMA—
Alabama Power Company
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Open wounds, n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Alabama Power Company, 15300 HWY 43 N., BUCKS, ALABAMA 36512 on — Open wounds, n.e.c., affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was relocating a tool cart. While backing it down a ramp, he caught his finger between the cart and a steel column causing an open fracture to his right middle finger.
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