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Fractures

1 hospitalization · 2018021756 · 2/20/2018 · Elster American Meter Company, L.L.C.

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
0
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Hand(s) and finger(s)
Nature of injury
Fractures

Cause

Event
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source
Special process machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name
Elster American Meter Company, L.L.C.
Location
2221 Industrial Road, NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA, 68410
NAICS
221210
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was doing routine minor maintenance on an automatic flagrod machine's gas meter when he noticed a flagrod was out of place in the machine's swage former. He was trying to push it into place when the head of the swage former came down on his hand, fracturing his hand, thumb, and middle finger.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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