Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Midwest Scrap Management, 850 East 45th Street North, PARK CITY, KANSAS 67219
on — Fractures, affecting the multiple body parts, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was checking a double feed roller hydraulic assembly to see if any obstructions were keeping it from opening all the way. As the employee removed a piece of steel, the employee was crushed in the hydraulic assembly resulting in fractured ribs and vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.
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