Incident date: 2019-01-21
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee had been operating the strapper machine to strap a bundle of lumber. The employee stepped inside the strapper to remove plastic material from the machine. Plastic strap wrapped around her right leg, pulling her into the bundle of wood and breaking her right tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate