OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14560452
JAMES RIVE - ROCHESTER
ADAMS, MA·
Event description
Employee's arm burned when caught in paper machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was attempting to thread heavy paper into the drying cans of a paper machine, but it kept slipping out of the rope carriers. As the paper came aroun d and up the bottom drying can, it apparently pulled Employee #1's arm down betw een the felt and the dryer can. He sustained third-degree burns and tissue damag e to his left arm. Employee #1 was trying to hand-thread the paper, in direct vi olation of safety rules.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 17
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 23
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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