Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Name: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at High Liner Foods USA Inc.
Start: 12/16/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015129549 · 12/16/2015 · High Liner Foods USA Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Arm(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery

Employer

Name: High Liner Foods USA Inc.
Location: 40 Herman Melville Boulevard, NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 02740
NAICS: 311710
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was cleaning glue rails on a packaging machine. Another worker was troubleshooting the packaging machine where suction cups grab the paperboard boxes. This worker jogged the machine to see if the suction cups were grabbing the paperboard sheets and the employee who was cleaning glue off of the rails suffered an arm injury requiring surgery.

Source

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