Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ralcorp Frozen Bakery Products, Inc, 273 Central Avenue, FOREST PARK, GEORGIA 30297
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the forearm(s).
Final narrative
An employee was struck by a large 4 ft. X 2 ft. piston while cleaning a dough machine resulting in trauma to the forearm.
HospitalizedForearm(s)Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
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