Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Graphic Packaging International, Inc., 1000 Jonesboro Rd., WEST MONROE, LOUISIANA 71294
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was walking his preventative maintenance route on the wood chip conveyor belt. He reached a point where he heard a bearing making noise. The employee attempted to kick the roller with his right foot. When he kicked the roller he missed and his right foot and leg were pulled into the nip point between the roller and the conveyor belt.
HospitalizedFoot(feet) and leg(s), unspecifiedConveyors-belt
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