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Crushing injuries
1 hospitalization · 2018065359 · 6/1/2018 · Grand Rapids Foam Technologies, Inc.
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Arm(s), unspecified
- Nature of injury
- Crushing injuries
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- Source
- Banding, baling, strapping machinery
Employer
- Name
- Grand Rapids Foam Technologies, Inc.
- Location
- 6100 International Parkway Suite 100, MCALLEN, TEXAS, 78503
- NAICS
- 326150
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was loading a baler to compress scape foam for disposal when his left arm was pinched/crushed between the bailer door and the bailer ram.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown