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 Federal Envelope Company, 608 Country Club Drive, BENSENVILLE, ILLINOIS 60106
on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Forearm(s).
Final narrative
An employee was retrieving envelopes that were stuck in a machine when a part of the machine contacted her right forearm, resulting in a laceration.
Hospitalized Forearm(s) Special process machinery unspecified
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