Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Henry Company LLC, 3802 Miller Park Drive, GARLAND, TEXAS 75042
on — Fractures, affecting the chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was trying to put a roll of roofing that had fallen off a pallet back onto the pallet when the palletizer gate crushed the employee's chest, resulting in broken ribs.
HospitalizedChest, except internal location of diseases or disordersStacking machinery
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