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NY Prisoner Worker Awarded $90,000 in Accident
Loaded on April 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2000, page 16
In 1995 William Terry was a prisoner at the Lyon Mountain Correctional Facility where he worked as a hay shredding machine operator on the prison dairy farm. While operating the shredding machine without safety shields, Terry's glove became caught in the machine and severed part of his right middle finger …
Filed under:
Work,
Prison Industries,
Workplace Injury,
Work Conditions/Safety,
Amputations,
Prison/Jail Murders.
Location:
New York.
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