Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Lowe's Home Improvement Store, 1886 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI 38701
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was holding a pipe that was being threaded in a pipe threader when the employee's right hand and arm were pulled around the pipe. The employee sustained a right hand injury.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedThreading and tapping machines
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