Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. dba Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City, 1800 Adams Street, GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS 62040
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.
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Final narrative
The employee was washing a stripper filler machine with a 4 to 5 inch diameter flexible hose that hung down from the ceiling. The employee noted a sharp pain in the back during the cleaning operation and heard a pop when the employee bent over to pick up the tool.
HospitalizedBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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