Incident date: 2021-12-12
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was operating a plastic strap extruder. While attempting to untangle straps that were blocking the discharge area, his right arm became caught in the moving plastic straps, resulting in thermal and friction burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple arm locations, unspecified
severity: moderate