CAMP HILL, PENNSYLVANIA—
Scott Electric Company
Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Scott Electric Company, 801 Spangler Road, CAMP HILL, PENNSYLVANIA 17011 on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was operating a wire cutting machine. The pay-off reel got caught on the reel racking system, which forcefully pulled the wire cutting machine into the metal racking system and the machine struck the employee's ankle. He sustained fractures of the left fibula and tibia.
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