Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Crushing injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Taylor Publishing Company, 1550 W. Mockingbird Lane, DALLAS, TEXAS 75235
on — Crushing injuries, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was cleaning a jam in a laminating machine when the tips of her glove were caught between the feed and snap rollers, pulling in her right hand and crushing her little, index, and ring fingers.
HospitalizedFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedSpecial process machinery, n.e.c.
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