Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Nestle Purina - Hartwell, GA, 266 Industrial Park Road, HARTWELL, GEORGIA 30643
on — Fractures, affecting the multiple body parts, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was clearing a metal pallet that was stuck on a filler line when a sensor triggered and the filler actuated, pinning the employee between the machine and the base layer of the pallet. The employee suffered four broken vertebrae and a fractured sternum.
HospitalizedMultiple body parts, unspecifiedBottling, canning, filling machinery
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