Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Abbott, 59 Wang Dang Doodle Loop, PAWLING, NEW YORK 12564
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was manually lowering a lift gate on a 5th wheel trailer. Other members of the team removed a camera arm from the trailer. The injured employee then bent down to remove wheel chocks and the camera arm struck him on the head resulting in a compression injury to the upper neck (C2-C5).
HospitalizedNeck, except internal location of diseases or disordersPhotographic equipment, n.e.c.
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