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Fractures

1 hospitalization · 2024109624 · 10/16/2024 · Packaging Corporation of America

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
0
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Multiple trunk locations
Nature of injury
Fractures

Cause

Event
Struck by other falling object n.e.c.
Source
Bundles, bales
Secondary source
Conveyors unspecified

Employer

Name
Packaging Corporation of America
Location
N9090 County Highway E, TOMAHAWK, WISCONSIN, 54487
NAICS
322122
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was picking up cardboard debris from the floor below the cardboard recycle conveyor. One of the cardboard bales weighing approximately 1200 pounds fell from the conveyor and struck the employee, resulting in bilateral rib fractures, fractured vertebrae, and a laceration.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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