Cuts and abrasions or bruises

Name: Cuts and abrasions or bruises at Production Resource Group
Start: 9/14/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017098816 · 9/14/2017 · Production Resource Group

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hand(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Cuts and abrasions or bruises

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Boxes, crates, cartons
Secondary source: Trusses, girders, beams-structurally attached, unspecified

Employer

Name: Production Resource Group
Location: Georgia World Congress Center, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30313
NAICS: 561920
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

Employees used a box to hold up a decorative wooden box surrounding a vertical truss. As the injured employee pulled the cable out from inside the truss, the box holding up the decorative box slipped, causing the decorative box to fall onto the victim's left hand. The employee suffered lacerations, a contusion and possible fracture to the left hand.

Source

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