Incident date: 2019-03-05
NAICS industry code: 334412

An employee was standing between the carriage and the machine frame to change a water rinse bath on an auto plating line. The carriage began moving and the employee's head was crushed between the carriage and the plating line frame, causing a skull fracture and a partial ear avulsion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate