Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Department of Homeland Security , Atlanta Hartfield Airport, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30320
on — Fractures, affecting the chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was retrieving a cell phone from underneath a baggage conveyor belt. Another employee did not know that he was under the conveyor and lowered the conveyor onto him, cracking his rib.
HospitalizedChest, except internal location of diseases or disordersConveyors-belt
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