BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA—
Academy Sports + Outdoors
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Academy Sports + Outdoors, 10808 Industriplex Blvd., BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 70809 on — Fractures, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
Two employees were counting the safe at the end of a shift. One employee was bracing her hand against the open safe when the other employee closed the safe on her left ring finger, fracturing it.
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