Incident date: 2021-11-05
NAICS industry code: 321918

An employee was shoveling dust at a mill house. His clothing caught on the rotating shaft of a hammer mill, and he was pulled toward the machine and thrown to the ground. He suffered four fractured ribs, a fractured iliac crest, a lacerated kidney, and contusions to his elbow and leg, all on the right side of his body. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate