Incident date: 2018-12-10
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was cleaning the two grinders in the grinding room as part of the daily cleaning schedule. The employee was standing on top of stairs at the top of the grinders. The employee slipped and fell, catching his right arm in a grinder. As the employee was trying to right himself, the grinder was activated. The employee sustained multiple fractures to his right arm.

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