Fractures and surface, flesh wounds

Name: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at American Excelsior Company
Start: 8/8/2024

1 hospitalization · 2024087269 · 8/8/2024 · American Excelsior Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Arm(s) unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds

Cause

Event: Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing
Source: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery unspecified
Secondary source: Machine guards

Employer

Name: American Excelsior Company
Location: 831 Pioneer Avenue, RICE LAKE, WISCONSIN, 54868
NAICS: 321999
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

On August 8, 2024, an employee was using a pad machine to produce "highway rolls" (16-foot-wide wood blanket). He was trying to adjust a blanket that was not feeding into the machine's baler when the netting of the blanket caught his right hand. His right arm was pulled into the baler and was broken and lacerated. He was hospitalized. Machine guarding was found to be insufficient.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown