Crushed fingers — modification of a protective plate in order to eliminate of crushed fingers

The company has a procedure in place for the management of occupational accidents, first aid, incidents and dangerous situations. Workers are obliged to report all these events and situations to the responsible person in the section concerned. Cases are documented in the electronic environment-health-and-safety system.

Within the framework of this policy, a worker at Avery followed the procedure by reporting the dangerous situation caused by the displacement of the protective plate from slitter 13. Because of this displacement, the protective plate of the slitter was too short which created a gap in which fingers of employees might get crushed while working with the machine.