Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Goodwill Industries-Suncoast, Inc., 10596 Gandy Blvd. N., SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA 33702
on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was unloading a cart of unsellable merchandise into a trash compactor. He lifted a broken picture frame and was impaled by a protruding shard of glass. The employee was hospitalized with a cut artery and a suspected tear to the liver.
HospitalizedAbdomen, except internal location of diseases or disordersTrash, garbage
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