Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-06-07 | South Glens Falls | New York | Essity Professional Hygiene North America | Upper extremities | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
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. | |||||
2016-09-25 | South Glens Falls | New York | SCA Tissue North America | Fingertip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was troubleshooting an operational problem with a bander when she tripped on a box on the floor and fell. Her hand then entered a moving timing chain and sprocket assembly, partially amputating her right middle fingertip. The machine was energized and the guard was removed at the time. |