Incident date: 2017-01-13
NAICS industry code: 311511

An employee was unjamming a trimmer machine and suffered a severe laceration and fracture to the right arm when one of the interlocks failed. The machine was guarded and interlocked at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate