Incident date: 2021-08-08
NAICS industry code: 325220

An employee had climbed onto a machine platform and gotten down on his hands and knees to look for the cause of a defect in film that was running on a slitting machine. He slipped and his left hand went into the machine, where it was caught between a roller and a bar. He suffered broken tendons in the hand and wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Hand(s) and wrist(s)
severity: moderate