Incident date: 2015-04-01
NAICS industry code: 322121

On or about 4/1/2015, at approximately 7:00 p.m., an employee bypassed an interlock device by climbing over a guarding fence and reached into the cushion roller portion of a material handling system. The machinery was not de-energized at the time. The rollers caught/struck the employee's right hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Paper production machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate