Incident date: 2016-05-29
NAICS industry code: 491110

While operating a mail-processing machine, an employee's head became trapped between the equipment and a guard, fracturing the skull, breaking ribs, severing ears, and damaging vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Mailing and metering machines
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate