Incident date: 2019-07-12
NAICS industry code: 326191

An employee was cleaning debris from the rollers of a calendar machine while it was in operation. The mill cleaning cloth the employee was using caught on one of the rollers and the employee was pulled in between two rollers. He sustained crushing injuries to the upper body and head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate