Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Crushing injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Signode Services, Northwest Cotton Growers Coop Gin, MOSCOW, KANSAS 67952
on , Crushing injuries, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was servicing a strapping machine that applies multiple polyester straps to compressed bales of cotton. The employee was checking the point were a friction weld fuses the two ends of the strapping together when the employee's right arm/wrist became strapped and trapped to the expanding bale of cotton. The right arm was caught and compressed under considerable pressure, requiring hospitalization.