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Evergreen Packaging, LLC

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning — Fractures — PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS

HOSPITALIZED — Worker hospitalized after incident at Evergreen Packaging, LLC in PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS
Employer Evergreen Packaging, LLC Report ID 2020109381
Address 5201 Fairfield Rd City, State ZIP PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS 71601
Event Date October 2, 2020 Outcome Hospitalized
Nature of Injury Fractures Body Part Lower leg(s)
Event Type Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning Source of Injury Logging and wood processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
Industry (NAICS) 322220 Inspection # —
GPS Coordinates 34.21000, -91.90000

Incident Narrative

An employee was clearing a jam in front of the wood sorter gate before the chipper in-feed conveyor. The jammed wood had pushed the sorter gate up to nearly the full-open position. The employee attached a chain-fall to one of the jammed logs. As the log was raised, the rest of the jam was relieved and fell on the conveyor below. The sorter gate then closed on the employee's right leg crushing it between the gate, a piece of wood and the surrounding frame. The employee's lower right leg was fractured.

Incident Summary

On October 2, 2020, a worker at Evergreen Packaging, LLC in PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS suffered fractures to the lower leg(s). The incident was classified as caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning, with logging and wood processing machinery-specialized, unspecified identified as the source of injury. The worker was hospitalized.

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