Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at AMERICAN WOODMARK CORPORATION, 398 Woodmark Drive, EASTANOLLEE, GEORGIA 30538
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee had begun to shut down a roll coat/top coat machine when material spilled on the carrier rollers. The employee used a tool to reach the roll and remove the material. The machine grabbed the tool and the employee's left arm was pulled into the machine. The employee was hospitalized and a surgical procedure was performed.
HospitalizedArm(s), unspecifiedMetal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
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