Incident date: 2020-06-07
NAICS industry code: 322291

An employee was removing a slab from a paper roll (to address two breaks that had happened near each other on the paper machine rewinder). The employee was tucking the paper back into the infeed between the bed roll and the finished roll when the nip point pulled the employee's arm in, about to the elbow. The employee suffered soft tissue damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Slitters, winders-paper production
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Upper extremities, unspecified
severity: moderate