Compressed between running equipment and other object(s) · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Graphic Packaging International, Inc., 400 E. North Ave., CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS 60188
on — Fractures , affecting the Foot (feet), toe(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An employee was working to build an electrical substation. He was cleaning out the inside of a fixed section of a PVC pipe on the end that was furthest from an excavator. The excavator was outside of the trench and more than 25 feet away when it moved a pipe, pinching the employee's right arm between the two pipes. The employee's forearm was fractured.
An employee was anchored to a movable piece of equipment called a "lid" with a self-retracting lifeline harness. An overhead crane lifted the equipment, causing the employee to be pulled by his harness. The employee was pulled off the walkway and swung over the wall of the kiln. His body and head struck the wall. The employee lost consciousness and sustained a laceration to the side of his head that required stitches. The employee also sustained multiple fractured ribs and fractured vertebrae.
An employee was in a scissor lift, preparing to strip formwork from the underside of a concrete deck. As the lift was ascending, the employee's left little finger was pinched between the lift rail and the concrete beam above. The employee was hospitalized, and the soft tissue of their left little fingertip was amputated; the finger's bony tuft was also damaged.
An employee was operating an order picker when his left middle finger was crushed between the lift and storage racking. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was ascending in a scissor lift when his left thumb was caught between between the railing of the lift and a piece of equipment installed in the ceiling. The employee's thumb tip was amputated.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 322213)
An employee was helping to place a paper roll on a machine when the cable for the pulley came loose. While he was helping get the cable in the right place, the machine started up and pinned his left middle fingertip between the pulley and cable, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.