Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Dal-Tile, 359 Clay Rd. , SUNNYVALE, TEXAS 75182
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was replacing a broken clevis and bolt on an automatic guided vehicle. When the employee moved the cylinder to inspect it, the cylinder released in the upward position. The employee's right hand was caught between the top of the stroke cylinder shaft and the hood base of the equipment.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedMaterial and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
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