Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Insulation Technologies Inc., 18601 R.L. Ostos Rd., BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS 78521
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was unbolting a metal plate to access a bucket elevator. When he was unbolting the last bolt, the metal plate cover was about to fall. As he went to catch the metal plate cover, his hand contacted the bucket elevator, resulting in a hand injury.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedConveyors-bucket, cup
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