Incident date: 2016-11-16
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was servicing a strapping machine that applies multiple polyester straps to compressed bales of cotton. The employee was checking the point were a friction weld fuses the two ends of the strapping together when the employee's right arm/wrist became strapped and trapped to the expanding bale of cotton. The right arm was caught and compressed under considerable pressure, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate