Essity Professional Hygiene North America
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury — SOUTH GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK
| Employer | Essity Professional Hygiene North America | Report ID | 2020065285 |
| Address | 1 River Street | City, State ZIP | SOUTH GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK 12803 |
| Event Date | June 7, 2020 | Outcome | Hospitalized |
| Nature of Injury | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Body Part | Upper extremities, unspecified |
| Event Type | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Source of Injury | Slitters, winders-paper production |
| Industry (NAICS) | 322291 | Inspection # | 1477973 |
| GPS Coordinates | 43.30000, -73.63000 | ||
Incident Narrative
An employee was removing a slab from a paper roll (to address two breaks that had happened near each other on the paper machine rewinder). The employee was tucking the paper back into the infeed between the bed roll and the finished roll when the nip point pulled the employee's arm in, about to the elbow. The employee suffered soft tissue damage.
Incident Summary
On June 7, 2020, a worker at Essity Professional Hygiene North America in SOUTH GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK suffered soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury to the upper extremities, unspecified. The incident was classified as caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning, with slitters, winders-paper production identified as the source of injury. The worker was hospitalized.
Context
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