Incident date: 2019-04-18
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was visually inspecting the feed of shavings to a furnace when his hand became caught in an auger at the top of the furnace. He sustained multiple fractures and lacerations to the right hand and wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Furnaces, heaters
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and wrist(s)
severity: moderate