Other water vehicle incident n.e.c. · Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Evansville Marine Service Inc, 4400 Old State Road 66, NEWBURGH, INDIANA 47630
on — Fractures and surface, flesh wounds , affecting the Arm(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was standing on the outside edge of a hopper barge while watching a skid steer push ore for an excavator (with a clamshell bucket) to unload. The excavator was on a work barge. The bucket of the excavator struck the employee and caused a near-amputation of their right arm and fractures of the ulna and radius of the left arm. The right arm required surgery.
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