Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Golden State Foods Corp., 4801 Northpark Drive, OPELIKA, ALABAMA 36801
on — Fractures, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was clearing a hamburger patty jam from equipment when her left hand was caught between the equipment's conveyor belt and its components, fracturing four fingers and requiring hospitalization.
HospitalizedFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedSpecial process machinery, unspecified
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