Fractures

Name: Fractures at New Hampshire Boring, Inc.
Start: 7/5/2016

1 hospitalization · 2016076026 · 7/5/2016 · New Hampshire Boring, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Forearm(s)
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: New Hampshire Boring, Inc.
Location: 400 Greenville Avenue, JOHNSTON, RHODE ISLAND, 02919
NAICS: 237110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was pulling the sampler attached to a 140-pound hammer out of the ground using the "cat head" (a revolving spool that helps raise the hammer) when he was pulled up off the ground and into the cat head by the force of the rope being pulled. He broke his left forearm.

Source

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