Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Earth Color Co. , 249 Pomeroy RD, PARSIPPANY, NEW JERSEY 07054
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a shrink wrap machine and caught her right hand in the running machine resulting in a severe laceration to the right index finger.
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