Incident date: 2016-08-22
NAICS industry code: 336413

An employee was removing a flattening plate from a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). He positioned himself on the CMM table about 38 inches off the floor and was attaching a hoist chain for a forklift boom attachment when the 2-inch probe shaft impaled his body, requiring surgical removal.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate