Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Georgia Pacific Lumber Operations - Pineland, 105 Yellowpine Hwy , PINELAND, TEXAS 75968
on — Fractures, affecting the hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee had been realigning a conveyor chain at an unscrambler. The employee went back to grab a board off the conveyor the machine started. The employee's arm was pinched between the chain and the unscrambler wall; the employee suffered fractures to the left ulna, radius, and hand, as well as a laceration between the left thumb and forefinger.
HospitalizedHand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.Conveyors-chain
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