Incident date: 2019-11-04
NAICS industry code: 444190

An employee was manually tying a cable on an automatic cut line that was malfunctioning. When the machine unjammed, it began operating while the employee's hand was in a pinch point area. The employee suffered a laceration from the middle of the middle and ring fingers down to the wrist on his left arm and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s) and wrist(s)
severity: moderate