Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Crushing injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Cajun Industries, 107100 Highway 44, CONVENT, LOUISIANA 70723
on , Crushing injuries, affecting the fingertip(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was loading dump trucks with an excavator when the gate on a dump truck would not latch. The employee got off the excavator and tried to manually latch the gate shut. At the same time, the dump truck driver was trying to latch the gate with the hydraulic system. The hydraulic system caused the gate to latch and crush the employee's fingertip.