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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221419849

WESTROCK CONVERTING, LLC

Event
Conveyor Belt, Electrical, Fracture, Liver, Lung, Panel, Paper Roll, Rib, Spine, Struck By
NAICS
339999
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345689723
Employer profile
WESTROCK CONVERTING, LLC
Summary number
221419849
Report ID
0155010

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

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 38 M

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    575

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