Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Home Depot, 10 North Avenue East, ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY 07201
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
A truck's lift gate was raised while the driver's hand was on it. The gate pinched the driver's left thumb,
HospitalizedFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedTruck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
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