Incident date: 2024-10-09
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was adding an anti-slip foaming agent to a paving transfer machine when the container of foaming agent fell into the machine's hopper. When the employee went to remove the container, his right arm was caught in the machine's rotating blades, resulting in amputation of the arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Material transfer machines  construction
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: high