OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14198436
EASTERN SHORE FIBRE COMPANY INCORPORATED
CAMBRIDGE, MD·
Event description
EMPLOYEE'S LEFT LEG FRACTURED WHEN CAUGHT IN CONVEYOR
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was cleaning scrap paper from a paper shredding machine. The shreddi e reversed, so that Employee #1's leg could be freed from the machine. The leg b elow the knee, and the foot were crushed and the bones fractured. Employee #1 wa s transported by helicopter to Peninsula General Hospital, Salisbury MD. ng knives were turned off. The guard enclosure over the shredder was placed in t he open position. Employee #1 stepped into the shredder compartment. The conveyo r that carries the material into the shredder compartment was running so that th e Employee #1 could clean the scrap from the area. He was standing on an 8-in.-w ide metal plate immediately adjacent to two revolving rollers 8 in. in diameter. Employee #1's left foot came into contact with the revolving rollers and his fo ot and leg where pulled into and between the two rollers. The coworker working n earby turned the machine off. The machine was then restarted and the rollers wer
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 758
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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