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 TRANSWEB, LLC, 1473 FORREST GROVE RD., VINELAND, NEW JERSEY 08360
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the wrist(s) and arm(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was cleaning a machine when his sweatshirt was caught and wrapped around the roller bar, causing him to lose circulation in his right arm and wrist.
HospitalizedWrist(s) and arm(s), unspecifiedMachinery, unspecified
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