Incident date: 2019-05-24
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was threading a 12" tail into the lead-out roll under the thru air dryer on a paper machine when the paper tail fell out. The employee went to manually tuck it into the nip point, and his right arm was drawn into the roller. He suffered a third degree burn to the right forearm that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Dryers-paper production
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate