Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at B & R Profiles, 216 Homeland Cemetary Rd., BARTOW, FLORIDA 33830
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was starting up a grinder pulverizer when he noticed that water was leaking from the pulverizer. As he tried to wipe away the water, his fingers became trapped by one of the pulverizer fins. He suffered a hand injury and was hospitalized. The pulverizer was running at the time of the incident.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedCompactors, crushers, pulverizers-earth, mineral
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