Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Wonton Food Inc., 52-10 37th Street, LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK 11101
on — Fractures , affecting the Thumb(s).
Final narrative
An employee was working with a cookie machine and was clearing out debris when their left thumb was fractured by the machine.
Hospitalized Thumb(s) Food and beverage processing machinery unspecified
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