OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221419849
WESTROCK CONVERTING, LLC
SHELDON SPRINGS, VT·
Event description
Employee is struck by paper roll and incurs multiple injurie
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:30 a.m. on November 23, 2021, an employee was working on electrical panel P1, installing a jumper between breakers. The door to the electrical panel was forced shut onto the employee by a 900-pound roll of paper moving along the ground-level conveyer belt. The employee sustained a bruised right lung, right liver, broken ribs 3 and 4, and a broken spinous. The employee was hospitalized for these injuries.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 38 M
- Event type
- 2
- Occupation code
- 575
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