Incident on Jun 12, 2017: Employee's finger tip is caught between two rollers and is a
At 10:40 p.m. on June 12, 2017, an employee was webbing a machine. The employee's right middle finger tip was amputated when caught between the back set of two cutoff rollers on the machine. The finger tip was later reattached at a hospital.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2021, the Green Bay site logged 4 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 102 workers: 4.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 193 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
NPS Spill Control - Bond
Green Bay · 2021
102
4
2
4.0
2.6
Nps Corporation Spirit Way
Green Bay · 2020
130
3
3
2.5
2.1
Nps Corporation Bond
Green Bay · 2020
98
7
1
7.7
2.6
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Jun 12, 2017, Green Bay: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee was re-webbing a machine when the employee's right middle fingertip was caught and partially amputated between two rollers inside the machine.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(ii) The point of operation of machines whose operation exposes an employee to injury, shall be guarded. The guarding device shall be in conformity with any appropriate standards therefor, or, in the absence of applicable specific standards, shall be so designed and constructed as to prevent the operator from having any part of his body in the danger zone during the operating cycle.
29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
29 CFR 1910.219(d)(1)
(d) Pulleys—(1) Guarding. Pulleys, any parts of which are seven (7) feet or less from the floor or working platform, shall be guarded in accordance with the standards specified in paragraphs (m) and (o) of this section. Pulleys serving as balance wheels (e.g., punch presses) on which the point of contact between belt and pulley is more than six feet six inches (6 ft. 6 in.) from the floor or platform may be guarded with a disk covering the spokes.
29 CFR 1910.219(e)(3)(i)
(3) Vertical and inclined belts. (i) Vertical and inclined belts shall be enclosed by a guard conforming to standards in paragraphs (m) and (o) of this section.
Other sanitary paper product manufacturing employers in Wisconsin
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