OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #707943
SIMKINS INDUSTRIES INC
CATONSVILLE, MD·
Event description
Employee's arm and hand crushed between rollers
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was attempting to feed paper between two rolls when his left hand be came caught in the nip point of the rolls, severely crushing his hand and arm. T here is a tool for performing this operation, but Employee #1 had not been instr ucted to use it and it was not located in the area where Employee #1 was working . The only training that Employee #1 had received was from watching others perfo rm the operation.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 777
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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