Incident date: 2025-05-07
NAICS industry code: 334416

An employee was setting up a machine. The machine's jog function was activated while the employee's left hand was on the rotating table of the machine, and the hand was pulled into the next station of the machine. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the wrist that cut an artery, and they required surgery. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate