Fractures

Name: Fractures at GE Transportation, a Wabtec Company
Start: 9/13/2021

1 hospitalization · 2021097878 · 9/13/2021 · GE Transportation, a Wabtec Company

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
Source: Turning handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: GE Transportation, a Wabtec Company
Location: 660 Barkeyville Road, GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA, 16127
NAICS: 336510
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a de-tensioner to loosen a bolt that was installed in a locomotive engine casing. The reaction arm slipped off the main bolt and caught the employee's hand against the engine block. The employee sustained fractured bones in the hand that required hospitalization and surgery.

Source

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