Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at OK Foods, Inc., 7300 SW 29th St., OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73179
on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the hand(s), except finger(s).
Final narrative
An employee was installing a plastic strip on a processing line. While he was putting in a lag bolt, it punctured his left hand on the palm side.
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