Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Name: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Graham Packaging Company
Start: 3/31/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017032960 · 3/31/2017 · Graham Packaging Company

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Scrap metal
Secondary source: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space

Employer

Name: Graham Packaging Company
Location: 7100 Durand Ave. Suite 100, STURTEVANT, WISCONSIN, 53177
NAICS: 326160
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was manually lifting individual pieces of scrap metal and throwing them into a metal bin when he was struck in the right eye by a metal rod that was ejected from the bin. He was wearing gloves and eye protection at the time.

Source

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