Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 139242.015 - Employee sustains scalping after hair is caught in conveyor

Accident Summary Nr: 139242.015 -- Report ID: 0454715 -- Event Date: 09/07/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1553606.015	09/17/2021		511130	Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Abstract: At 2:30 p.m. on September 7, 2021, an employee working for a book publisher was finishing up her shift by cleaning around a conveyor. As she reached under the still running conveyor to get some boxes she had placed under the conveyor, her hair was caught in the moving parts. The employee was scalped requiring hospitalization.

Keywords: Catch Point, Caught In, Cleaning, Conveyor, Degloving, Energized, Engineering Controls, Hair, Head, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Material Handling, Rotating Parts, Scalp, Scalped, Skin

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1553606.015	48	F	Hospitalized injury

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