Incident date: 2018-02-05
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was moving laser guided vehicles (LGV) due to a jam up. One was in manual when another came up in auto. The employee kicked the sensor to stop the LGV in auto. The LGV reset after 15 seconds and started up again, trapping the employee between the two LGVs. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration and avulsion to the right calf.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate