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Second degree heat (thermal) burns
1 hospitalization · 2015021314 · 2/10/2015 · POLYMER CORPORATION
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Hand(s), unspecified
- Nature of injury
- Second degree heat (thermal) burns
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- Source
- Plastic injection molding machinery
Employer
- Name
- POLYMER CORPORATION
- Location
- One Third Street, PALMER, MASSACHUSETTS, 01069
- NAICS
- 326199
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee received second degree burns on the left hand while attempting to free an obstruction in an injection molding machine.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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