Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Fry Communications, Inc., 15 Pleasant View Drive, MECHANICSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17050
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was inching a printing press. Two of the employee's fingers were caught in the press, suffering injuries; the employee was hospitalized.
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An employee opened a 480-volt breaker box and reached inside the breaker box when an uninsulated tool came in contact with one of the legs, causing him to be electrocuted. The employee's arm also got caught on the box, resulting in breaks to both bones in the forearm.
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