Struck by running powered equipment unspecified · Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Rumpke - Beech Hollow Landfill, 38234 Ohio 93, HAMDEN, OHIO 45634
on , Fractures and surface, flesh wounds, affecting the thumb(s).
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Final narrative
A driver had backed up a rear load truck to a dumpster. The winch cable was bound, and another employee went to use the controls to put slack in the line. The cable tightened instead of loosening while the driver was holding it, and it caught his hand against the truck and crushed his thumb. The thumb was fractured and lacerated; he was hospitalized, requiring surgery. The incident took place during a training activity.