AUGUSTA, GEORGIA—
Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Graphic Packaging International, Inc., 4278 Mike Padgett Hwy, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 30906 on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
While an employee was repairing a water condensate motor and pump, the grating covering an adjacent u-drain dislodged. This caused the employee's right leg to drop into hot water condensate resulting in a thermal burn to the lower right leg.
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CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS—
Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
An employee was working with a pallet bagger, trimming excess corrugate off a tray. The load was raised on a lift table. The scrap being trimmed activated the lift table's photo eye, causing the table to lower. Its frame pinched the steel toe of the employee's left boot between a bracket and the concrete. The employee suffered fractures in the left foot and was hospitalized.
WEST MONROE, LOUISIANA—
Graphic Packaging International Inc.
An employee was completing a quality check at the coating section of the paper machine. As the employee was clearing a coating buildup from the applicator roll, the employee's left hand was caught in a nip point between the applicator roll and coater roll and crushed.
WEST MONROE, LOUISIANA—
Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
An employee was pushing a loaded pallet to the end of a conveyor at a press. The employee noticed a plastic pad lying in front of the pallet and was removing it when the pallet, still rolling, pinched the employee's right ring finger against the metal conveyor end stop amputating it.
MARION, OHIO—
GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL, INC.
On 10/10/2018, around 8:30 a.m., an employee was attempting to replace a motor on a press machine when the employee was pinned between the motor and the machine frame, suffering contusions that required hospitalization.
WAUSAU, WISCONSIN—
GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL INC
An employee was cleaning the roller on a printing press when the employee's right thumb was pulled into the in-going nip point, partially amputating the thumb tip. The press was unguarded at the time.
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