Incident date: 2016-10-05
NAICS industry code: 561320

An employee was attempting to push a pipe down the trough of a grinding machine with his foot. His foot became caught between the wall and the pipe, smashing his leg. He suffered severe contusions to the lower leg that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate