Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running · Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Daltile, 3250 South 76th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19153
on — Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries, affecting the Part of body unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was rigging a bundle of slabs to a powered industrial truck using a spreader bar when a slab shifted from the spreader bar. The employee went to push the slab and was caught between the bundle of slabs and a structural support beam. The employee sustained a crush injury.
Hospitalized Part of body unspecified Bundles, bales
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