OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #735050
ACME NAMEPLATE MFG. CO.
GREAT FALLS, SC·
Event description
Employee scalped when hair enters roller
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was feeding silk screens into a coater machine. A noise was heard an d the machine operator went to get a supervisor. Employee #1 decided to investig ate the noise and went into the enclosure between the coater and oven where four round conveyor belts transfer the screens into the oven. The employee bent side ways to look into the feeding conveyor belts into the oven and her hair contacte d the rubber belts and was pulled onto the roller along with the belts. The empl oyee was scalped on the left side of her head. She was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 19 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 724
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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