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Fractures

1 hospitalization · 2022032803 · 3/29/2022 · Goodwill Industries Of South Texas, Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source
Banding, baling, strapping machinery

Employer

Name
Goodwill Industries Of South Texas, Inc.
Location
702 Dixieland, HARLINGEN, TEXAS, 78550
NAICS
813319
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was loading clothing into the baler machine when the machine caught her left arm wedging the arm between the front, interior wall of the baler machine's bale chamber door and the presser. The employee sustained multiple lacerations and arm fractures that required surgery.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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