Incident date: 2016-02-16
NAICS industry code: 238910

On Tuesday, February 16, 2017, at approximately 12:30PM, an employee was in the process of washing out the salt spreader on the rear of a truck. The employee sustained fractures to his right arm and was hospitalized when his hand was caught in the moving spreader mechanism.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate