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Other or multiple types of burns degree unspecified

1 hospitalization · 2024010513 · 1/17/2024 · U.S. Postal Service

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
0
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified
Nature of injury
Other or multiple types of burns degree unspecified

Cause

Event
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing
Source
Machinery unspecified
Secondary source
Secondary source not applicable

Employer

Name
U.S. Postal Service
Location
2507 Downing Rd, FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, 28312
NAICS
491110
Jurisdiction
0

Narrative

An employee and co-workers were on the upper level of a machine while observing and listening for loud/worn rollers in the machine. After identifying the noisy bearing, the employee stepped away from the machine and her hand touched the incline belt. The belt pulled her hand into the idler roller, causing it to get wedged between the roller and the incline belt. The belt was stopped and the employee's hand was worked out from the roller. The employee suffered a hand injury, including friction burns, that required hospitalization.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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