Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Avulsions, enucleations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Creed-Monarch, Inc., 1 Pucci Park, NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT 06050
on — Avulsions, enucleations, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was removing a part from a spark changer tool when her hand was caught in the tool's rotating platform, breaking three fingers and tearing skin off the back of her right hand. She was hospitalized.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedSpecial process machinery, n.e.c.
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