Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Perry & Perry Builders, Inc., 5615 North Dale St., HOUSTON, TEXAS 77087
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the hand(s) and finger(s).
Final narrative
An employee was using a drill on the cage of a mobile welding machine. As he tightened a bit on a truck tool, the tool was activated and lacerated his right index finger and the space between the finger and the thumb. He was hospitalized.
HospitalizedHand(s) and finger(s)Nonclassifiable
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