Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Dura Stress, Inc., 11325 County Road 44, LEESBURG, FLORIDA 34788
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was pulling steel cables when one of the cables under tension broke loose and injured both of the employee's hands.
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