Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Rite Aid Corporation, 7245 Henry Clay Blvd., LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK 13088
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was working on a conveyor on the sorting deck when the employee's hand was caught in the moving conveyor, requiring hospitalization and surgery. The conveyor was unguarded at the time.
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An employee was using a skid loader to clean an area of loose debris (straw shed). He was lowering the bucket when the arms/bucket of the skid loader pinned his feet against the step of the loader. The employee sustained fractures to both feet and was hospitalized.
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