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Crushing injuries
1 hospitalization · 2021042882 · 4/7/2021 · Pottstown Division
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Leg(s), unspecified
- Nature of injury
- Crushing injuries
Cause
- Event
- Excavation or trenching cave-in
- Source
- Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
Employer
- Name
- Pottstown Division
- Location
- 243 Evergreen Rd., POTTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 19464
- NAICS
- 237110
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was working in a trench making a pipe connection when the trench collapsed on the employee. The employee's leg was crushed.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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