Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 123301.015 - Employee's hand and arm are crushed in pull rollers

Accident Summary Nr: 123301.015 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 01/07/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1454728.015	01/21/2020		326113	Airpark Plastics Llc

Abstract: At 8:00 a.m. on January 7, 2020, an employee was trying to cut out an air bubble from a sheet of 1/4 inch plastic that was being pulled by the pull roller on an extruder. The employee was using a utility knife to cut the air bubble when the glove on his right hand got caught and pulled into the pull rollers. The unguarded pull rollers are 2000 pounds and pull large sheets of plastic from the extruder. The employee was hospitalized to treat crushing injuries to his right hand and arm.

Keywords: Arm, Caught In, Crushed, Extrude, Glove, Hand, Plastic, Plastic Mfg, Power Roller, Pulled In, Roller--Mach/Part, Unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1454728.015	25	M	Hospitalized injury		Laborers, except construction

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