Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Oldcastle Infrastructure, 4478 Greer Circle, STONE MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA 30083
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was transferring finished product (cured concrete) from a staging area. As he moved a piece of wood cribbing, his left hand was pinched between the concrete and the cribbing. He was hospitalized for a hand injury.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedParts and materials, unspecified
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