Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at D'Addario & Company, Inc., 540 Smith St., FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK 11735
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was walking around after operating equipment and inadvertently grabbed a rotating shaft that was protruding from a straightening machine resulting in arm and hand lacerations.
HospitalizedHand(s) and arm(s), unspecifiedBending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
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