Incident date: 2022-10-27
NAICS industry code: 324122

Employees were performing a paper splicing operation at the floating loopers of a saturator machine. The machine's counterweight (weighing 10,000 lbs.) came down on an employee who was under the counterweight causing fractures to his spine, ribs, and a leg. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate