Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Simply Natural Foods LLC, 74 Mall Drive, COMMACK, NEW YORK 11725
on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was loading 50-pound bags of chocolate into a commercial-grade mixer. The employee slipped and fell into the mixer, where the agitator broke the employee's left arm. The employee was hospitalized.
HospitalizedArm(s), unspecifiedMixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
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