Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Other multiple traumatic injuries n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, 702 Briarwood, NORTH TONAWANDA, NEW YORK 14120
on — Other multiple traumatic injuries n.e.c., affecting the Multiple body parts unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was standing on the step on the passenger's rear side of a bucket truck returning the empty basket and boom to its cradle position. As the boom lowered the employee was caught between the control station and the empty bucket. They sustained an upper extremity fracture, an injury to lower neck vertebrae, and a blood clot.
Hospitalized Multiple body parts unspecified Boom truck, cherry picker
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