Cuts, lacerations

Name: Cuts, lacerations at Caldwell Tank, Inc.
Start: 8/19/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015085907 · 8/19/2015 · Caldwell Tank, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Knee(s)
Nature of injury: Cuts, lacerations

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Rope, twine, string

Employer

Name: Caldwell Tank, Inc.
Location: 1225 Opportunity Ave, CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17201
NAICS: 332420
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was rigging the painter's boom when the rigging rope got cut on a sharp edge and broke. The rigging came down and hit the employee in the left knee, causing a laceration.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown