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Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
1 hospitalization · 2015064051 · 6/24/2015 · Dow Chemical Co.
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Hand(s), unspecified
- Nature of injury
- Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- Source
- Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
Employer
- Name
- Dow Chemical Co.
- Location
- 21925 Louisiana 1, PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA, 70764
- NAICS
- 325211
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee reached into a packaging scale to clean out polyethylene packaging pellets and the pneumatic gate closed on his right hand.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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