OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #823138
CHESAPEAKE CORPORATION
GLEN BURNIE, MD·
Event description
Employee's arm fractured when caught between feed rollers
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was feeding boxes into the press section of a bulk box machine using a push stick, as instructed, to hold down the flaps of the boxes. The stick bec ame caught in the machine and Employee #1's arm was caught between the rollers a nd fractured in two places. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 63 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 779
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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