Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Chapa Quiroga, L.L.C., 328 West Stenger Street, SAN BENITO, TEXAS 78586
on — Fractures, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee entered a silo (tank) to clean the remainder of the grain from it and handle the sweeper machine. While the other sweepers were operating, he stepped back and his foot went inside the sweeper. The sweeper machine caught his boot first and then his foot, causing an open wound and broken bone.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedAgricultural and garden machinery, unspecified
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