Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Name: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Walmart Distribution Center
Start: 1/20/2016

1 hospitalization · 2016010564 · 1/20/2016 · Walmart Distribution Center

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Conveyors-powered, unspecified

Employer

Name: Walmart Distribution Center
Location: 42 Freentown Rd, RAYMOND, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03077
NAICS: 452112
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was hospitalized for an injury requiring surgery that occurred in the shipping department. An employee attempted to fix a pop-out roller on the conveyor while it was still running and his finger was caught in the conveyor. The conveyor was not locked out or tagged out at the time.

Source

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