Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY L. P., 170 STANFORD PKWY., FINDLAY, OHIO 45840
on — Fractures , affecting the Other multiple ear(s), facial locations.
Final narrative
An employee was attempting to clear a jammed pallet from inside a palletizer and suffered a fractured nose, a fractured left orbital bone, and a forehead laceration.
Hospitalized Other multiple ear(s), facial locations Stacking machinery
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