Wei-Chuan, USA: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Sep 23, 2008: Employee lacerates hand when caught in roller

Employee #1 and a coworker started their shift in the wrapper production room. T hey turned on the dough skin machine and started cleaning different sections of the dough skin machine with wet paper towels. At approximately 5:39 a.m. Employe e #1 was cleaning the rolls on the compounding section of the machine when his r ight hand got caught between in-running rolls. Employee #1 stopped the machine b y pressing the stop button on the main panel. The coworker was getting some pape r towels when he heard Employee #1's scream. The coworker went to Employee #1 an d turned off the machine. Other employees came over and tried to release Employe e #1's hand from the rolls without success. Emergency services freed Employee #1 's hand and transported him to the hospital. Employee #1 underwent the surgery f or crushing hand injury and was hospitalized for three days.

Incident on Jul 29, 1999: Employee caught in machine after powering it on

At approximately 8:00 p.m. on July 29, 1999, during the second work-shift Employ ee #1, a maintenance mechanic, was working alone changing the belts on the three Esmach ISE/160 FL spiral mixing machines. Employee #1 was instructed by his imm ediate supervisor to do maintenance on the mixing machines in a certain departme nt. He had locked-out and tagged-out the first of the three assigned spiral mixi ng machines and completed the belt change on the first machine. He then took a b reak. When he came back from lunch, he began working on the second spiral mixing machine. Employee #1 thought that the second spiral mixing machine was locked-o ut and tagged-out. He took the cover off and began the maintenance procedure. Th e purpose was to change the belts. He was reaching into the top belt and pulley area when his body pushed up against the on/off button resulting in activation o f the spiral mixing machine. His forearm was caught between the six belts and th e smaller of the two pulleys but succeeded in releasing his arm from the belt an d pulley. Employee #1 received injury to the left wrist which fractured the radi us and fifth metacarpal and was hospitalized.