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Lowe's Home Improvement Store

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury — GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI

HOSPITALIZED — Worker hospitalized after incident at Lowe's Home Improvement Store in GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI
Employer Lowe's Home Improvement Store Report ID 20181111770
Address 1886 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd City, State ZIP GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI 38701
Event Date November 15, 2018 Outcome Hospitalized
Nature of Injury Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury Body Part Hand(s), unspecified
Event Type Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation Source of Injury Threading and tapping machines
Industry (NAICS) 444110 Inspection # —
GPS Coordinates 33.36000, -91.03000

Incident Narrative

An employee was holding a pipe that was being threaded in a pipe threader when the employee's right hand and arm were pulled around the pipe. The employee sustained a right hand injury.

Incident Summary

On November 15, 2018, a worker at Lowe's Home Improvement Store in GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI suffered soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury to the hand(s), unspecified. The incident was classified as caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation, with threading and tapping machines identified as the source of injury. The worker was hospitalized.

Context

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