Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CRC INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED, 885 LOUIS DRIVE, WARMINSTER, PENNSYLVANIA 18974
on — Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury, affecting the wrist(s).
Final narrative
An employee was packaging boxes on the gallon production line and moving them to a skid. While relocating a box of product to the skid, he felt a pull in his arm. He was hospitalized for a swollen right wrist.
HospitalizedWrist(s)Boxes, crates, cartons
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