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Fractures
1 hospitalization · 2017032517 · 3/18/2017 · Ball Metal, Food & Aerosol Products Facility
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Wrist(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
- Nature of injury
- Fractures
Cause
- Event
- Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- Source
- Crowbars
- Secondary source
- Machinery, unspecified
Employer
- Name
- Ball Metal, Food & Aerosol Products Facility
- Location
- 431 Privet Rd., HORSHAM, PENNSYLVANIA, 19044
- NAICS
- 999999
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee placed a pry bar into a flywheel of the machine. The machine started and the pry bar struck his right forearm breaking it and his wrist.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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