Incident date: 2016-12-16
NAICS industry code: 811111

An employee was using a rag to find the source of a leak on a tractor transmission when the rag became stuck in a flywheel and subsequently pulled the employee's hand into the flywheel. The employee suffered a right-hand laceration that required stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Tractor, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate