Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 98611.015 - Employee crushes arm and fractures elbow by a truss roller

Accident Summary Nr: 98611.015 -- Report ID: 0627500 -- Event Date: 08/25/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1259805.015	08/30/2017		321214	El Paso Truss, Inc.

Abstract: At 11:45 a.m. on August 25, 2017, Employee #1 was assisting a coworker, feeding the trusses through a truss roller. The truss roller had a guard on the top roller but not the bottom roller. The employee stuck his hand in the truss roller after the truss had been fed through. The truss roller was still on, and his arm and elbow were crushed. Employee #1 was hospitalized for the fractured elbow that he sustained in the incident.

Keywords: Arm, Crushed, Elbow, Fracture, Lockout, Roller--Mach/Part, Truss, Unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1259805.015	23	M	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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