Pacon Inc: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on May 17, 2017: Employees crushes and amputates finger when working on machi

At 4:30 p.m. on July 17, 2017, an employee was feeding the netting material onto the rollers for the Header Bag Machine #1. The employee's hand or fingers were caught by the machine's rollers and crushed her left pinkie. The employee suffered an amputation of her finger and was hospitalized.

Incident on Feb 1, 2006: Employee sustains avulsion and fractures in knitting machine

At approximately 3:15 p.m. on February 1, 2006, Employee #1 was working for Paco n, Inc., a manufacturer of plastics materials, in Baldwin Park, CA. Using a rag and cleaning solution, he was cleaning the inbound rollers on a plastic knitting machine while the knitting machine was running. His right hand became caught, a nd it was pulled into the inbound rollers of the knitting machine. He could not reach for the stop button to shut the rollers off. He sustained a crushing injur y, lacerations, an avulsion, and fractures to his right hand. He was taken to Hu ntington Memorial Hospital, where he was hospitalized for ten days. Causal facto rs are that the knitting machine runs automatically, with the operator required to work within reach of running rollers with inbound nip points. There were no b arriers at the inbound nip points of the rollers to prevent the operator's finge rs from being caught in the nip points. There were no guards at the knee level t o shut the machine off.