Incident date: 2022-07-21
NAICS industry code: 326130

On July 21, 2022, employees were working to set up a calendar machine for new product. The injured employee was in training and entered the front of the calendar oven to feed material through the rollers to a second employee. While feeding materials through the rollers, the machine started pulling the injured employee's right arm into the chill roller and idler arm that was adjacent to a heating roller. The employee suffered third-degree burns to their right forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate