Abstract: On May 31, 2013, an incident occurred when Employee #1 was instructed by a coworker to clean the laminating machine in preparation for using it to laminate a run of boards. Employee #1 started the laminator in order to open the rollers and proceeded to clean the rollers by hand wiping them with damp shop towels and rags at the point of operation at the front of the machine, where sheets are fed into the laminator. While Employee #1 was wiping one of the rollers his arm became caught in the in running nip point to about the middle of his upper arm. The coworker, came to his aid and removed his arm. Emergency responders transported Employee #1 to a local medical center where he was treated for an eight-inch degloving injury to his right arm.