Fractures

Name: Fractures at US GREENFIBER, LLC
Start: 6/5/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017065090 · 6/5/2017 · US GREENFIBER, LLC

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
Source: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery

Employer

Name: US GREENFIBER, LLC
Location: 157 Passan Drive - Building #2, WILKES BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, 18702
NAICS: 322299
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was walking between a bagger gate and bagger snout of a bagger machine operated by a coworker when the coworker cycled the bagger machine. The mechanical bagger gate then struck and crushed the employee's left leg, breaking it and requiring hospitalization.

Source

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