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HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

220180180013 · 01/13/2018 · Lafarge North America

Details

Degree of injury
NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Accident type
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation
Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
Activity
Hand tools (not powered)
Injury source
CROWBAR,PRY BAR
Nature of injury
CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part
FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost
0
Mine experience
0.12 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
Holcim Ltd
Operator
Lafarge North America
Mine
2000044

Narrative

The employee was using a poking bar to poke the frozen chunks down in the feeder, on a forward stroke the employee caught the ring finger on left hand on the middle bar of the hand rail pinching finger between the poking bar and the handrail. Employee received two stitches.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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