Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at GE Transportation, a Wabtec Company, 660 Barkeyville Road, GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA 16127
on , Fractures, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
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Final 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.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedTurning handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
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