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Cuts, lacerations
1 hospitalization · 2016031909 · 3/3/2016 · Vecta Environmental Services, LLC
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Lower leg(s)
- Nature of injury
- Cuts, lacerations
Cause
- Event
- Struck by discharged object or substance
- Source
- Pressurized water-blast
- Secondary source
- Power washers
Employer
- Name
- Vecta Environmental Services, LLC
- Location
- Baton Rouge State Docks, PORT ALLEN, LOUISIANA, 70767
- NAICS
- 562998
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was cleaning his boot with a high-power pressure washer when the washer lacerated the area above the right ankle.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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