Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at International Marine & Industrial Applicators LLC, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII 96860
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was doing housekeeping work with a 150-horsepower industrial vacuum. The vacuum sucked in a piece of plastic, then sucked in the employee's right arm as the employee tried to remove the plastic. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to the arm.
HospitalizedArm(s), unspecifiedWashers, dryers, and cleaning machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
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