Contact with hot objects or substances · Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at MP Global Products, LLC, 2500 Old Hadar Road, NORFOLK, NEBRASKA 68701
on — Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was using a laminator and got a hand caught in the machine suffering third degree burns to both hands.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedSpecial process machinery, n.e.c.
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