Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Hunt Refinery, 1855 Fairlawn Road, TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA 35401
on — Fractures and surface, flesh wounds , affecting the Thumb(s).
Final narrative
An employee was moving a barbeque grill. The lid fell while in transport and pinched their right thumb against the grill frame causing a fracture and laceration. The employee was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Thumb(s) Cooking and food-warming machinery except pressurized
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