Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Gap Distribution Center, 110 Merritt Boulevard, FISHKILL, NEW YORK 12524
on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Wrist(s) and arm(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was in a scissor lift about 20 feet high to remove a roller from a roller conveyor. The belt conveyor was located about two feet above the roller conveyor. The employee was pulled into a metal horizontal support bar and caught in the belt conveyor. He sustained a laceration to his right wrist and arm and was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Wrist(s) and arm(s) n.e.c. Conveyors belt, slot, chain
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