Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Encompass, LLC, 1720 GA Hwy 138, CONYERS, GEORGIA 30013
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was working with another employee to unjam a fiber picker machine when the employee's left arm was pulled into the hazardous area. The employee was hospitalized with left hand and arm injuries.
HospitalizedHand(s) and arm(s), unspecifiedPicking, carding, combing machinery
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