Fractures

Name: Fractures at Zekelman Industires, Inc.
Start: 11/12/2019

1 hospitalization · 20191111757 · 11/12/2019 · Zekelman Industires, Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
Secondary source: Painting, priming, metal coating machinery

Employer

Name: Zekelman Industires, Inc.
Location: 1 Council Avenue, WHEATLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, 16161
NAICS: 331210
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was dumping a 55-gallon drum into a galvanizing trough with the assistance of a cab-operated crane. As the drum was dumping, the employee's thumb was pinched between the drum and the galvanizing trough. The employee suffered a broken left thumb that required surgery.

Source

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