105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA—

U.S. Postal Service

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Other or multiple types of burns degree unspecified

Final 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.

Hospitalized Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified Machinery unspecified

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