Incident date: 2020-11-30
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was checking a double feed roller hydraulic assembly to see if any obstructions were keeping it from opening all the way. As the employee removed a piece of steel, the employee was crushed in the hydraulic assembly resulting in fractured ribs and vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate