Fiber Yarn and Thread Mills

NarrativeAt 9:15 p.m. on October 30, 2017, an employee was on a catwalk and reaching downward to retrieve a nylon rope from a coworker when his head was caught between a fixed metal ladder and a J-box. The J-box ran out of carpet and needed to be re-threaded through the system using a nylon rope which was to be tied to the end of a piece of carpet. The employees were pulling rope through the rollers and eventually down to the sew-on work station to be mended to carpet coming from the carpet buggy. The J-box was moving from side to side when the employee's head was caught between the fixed metal ladder and the J-box. As a result, the employee received trauma to his head and later died.

NarrativeOn November 9, 2016, Employee #1, a card technician, was working on card machin e number 14. The licker-in mechanism came up out of the card machine and struc k the cover and then the cover and the licker-in struck him. He sustained skul l, rib, and arm fractures and an arm laceration. He was hospitalized due to in ternal injuries and later died.

NarrativeAn employee was working with yarn when her finger was caught in the yarn cutter guide during a string-up operation, causing an amputation.