104,543Records 70,659Employers 84,666Hospitalizations 27,563Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-09-30
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14457790

PENIS,ROLLER--MACH/PART,LACERATION,NIP POINT

Event
PENIS,ROLLER--MACH/PART,LACERATION,NIP POINT
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14457790
Report ID
352420

Event description

EMPLOYEE'S PENIS CAUGHT IN IN-ROLLS OF "LOWN" MACHINE

Investigation abstract

EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ROLLING EXPANDED METAL PIECES MEASURING 30 INCHES BY 66 INCHES B Y 3/32 INCH THICK INTO 22 INCH DIAMETER CYLINDERS ON A 50 INCH "LOWN" MACHINE. T HE IN-RUNNING NIP POINT OF THE ROLLS WAS 28 INCHES ABOVE THE FLOOR. THE ROUGH ED GE ON ONE OF THE METAL PIECES BECAME CAUGHT ON THE MATERIAL OF THE FRONT OF HIS TROUSERS AT THE FLY. AS THE METAL WAS PULLED INTO THE ROLLS, IT PULLED THE TROUS ER MATERIAL IN WITH IT. THE EMPLOYEE'S PENIS FORESKIN WAS ALSO PULLED INTO THE R OLLS. BEFORE THE EMPLOYEE COULD REVERSE THE ROLLS HE RECEIVED A LACERATION IN TH E PENIS FORESKIN WHICH HAD TO BE STITCHED AT THE HOSPITAL.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 21 M

    Nature of injury
    7
    Part of body
    31
    Event type
    2
    Source
    26
    Occupation code
    707
    Human factor
    14
    Environmental factor
    1
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.