Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Northeast Prestressed Products LLC, 135 Gordon Nagle Trail, POTTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 17901
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the forearm(s).
Final narrative
On June 16, 2020, at approximately 5:00 PM, an employee reached to use controls to lower a hydraulic part of a trailer. The truck was on a hill and the unmovable part of the trailer moved and pinched his forearm against a concrete beam. He was hospitalized with injury to the right forearm.
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