Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221426125

S & S PACKAGING PRODUCTS, INC.

Event
Broken Bone, Caught By, Fracture, Grinder, Jaw, Laceration, Neck
NAICS
322211
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345705776
Employer profile
S & S PACKAGING PRODUCTS, INC.
Summary number
221426125
Report ID
0336000

Event description

Employee lacerates neck and breaks jaw while using hand grin

Investigation abstract

At 1:45 p.m. on December 20, 2021, an employee was polishing a metal pole with a hand grinder, when his sweatshirt's strings got wrapped up on the grinder, causing a laceration to the neck and a broken jaw. The employee was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 55 M

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    889

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