105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—

Dart Container Corporation

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Final narrative

In the thermal forming department, a machine was shut down because the sheet was wrapped around the rolls. The sheet was cleared, and the leader sheet was in place to start the line. During the start-up process, the sheet broke away from the leader sheet. An employee was on the east side of the chrome-roll stand between the scanner and draw rolls. The employee was trying to save the sheet and manually hand feeding the sheet into the draw rolls when his hand was caught between the rolls and his arm was pulled in. He suffered injuries to his fingers, hand, and arm up to the bicep and internal bleeding.

Hospitalized Multiple upper extremities locations, n.e.c. Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified

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