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HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
220081970026 · 07/07/2008 · Lehigh Northeast Cement Company
Details
- Degree of injury
- DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- Classification
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- Accident type
- Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects
- Occupation
- Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- Activity
- Hand tools (not powered)
- Injury source
- AXE,HAMMER,SLEDGE
- Nature of injury
- SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- Body part
- BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- Days lost
- 0
- Mine experience
- 7 years
Operator
- Controller (parent)
- Heidelberg Materials AG
- Operator
- Lehigh Northeast Cement Company
- Mine
- 3000585
Narrative
The employee was rapping out silo 29E with a sledge hammer when the hammer veered off the silos and the employee felt a pull in his lower back.
Source
- Authoritative
- MSHA Open Government Data
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown