Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Tower Components, Inc, 695 Summerlin Drive, INOLA, OKLAHOMA 74036
on — Fractures, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was putting refractory concrete into the cement mixer when he noticed the clean out door was open. As he went to close the door, his left hand slipped and went inside the mixer and was caught by the mixing blade, resulting in lacerations and fractures.
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