Incident date: 2025-07-22
NAICS industry code: 333314

A lab technician was operating a polishing machine. He went to replace pads within the machine when the camera inside the machine that performs scanning lowered and caught his right wrist against the polishing tank. The employee suffered crush injuries to his wrist that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Honing, polishing, lapping machinery
code_nature: title: Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate