Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Traumatic injuries to bones, nerves, spinal cord, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Taylor Farms Texas, Inc., 1171 N. Cockrell Hill RD, DALLAS, TEXAS 75211
on — Traumatic injuries to bones, nerves, spinal cord, unspecified, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was adding enchilada mix into a mixer when her hand was caught between the paddles and the mixer, resulting in ligament and nerve damage to her left arm and possible broken bones. She was hospitalized.
HospitalizedArm(s), unspecifiedMixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
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