Fractures

Name: Fractures at GREENBRIAR RAIL SERVICES
Start: 1/31/2023

1 hospitalization · 2023010972 · 1/31/2023 · GREENBRIAR RAIL SERVICES

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
Source: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified

Employer

Name: GREENBRIAR RAIL SERVICES
Location: 101 PARK STREET, CLEBURNE, TEXAS, 76031
NAICS: 488210
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a pry bar to remove a coupler attached to a carrier plate from the end of a railcar. The coupler and the carrier plate fell, catching his left hand against a gear table. He suffered three broken bones and a laceration to the hand.

Source

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