Incident date: 2016-07-06
NAICS industry code: 311421

An employee was power washing an idling pea picker (combine) when a leading length of power wash hose was caught and began wrapping around the picking head of the combine.  A length of the power wash hose dragged on the ground as the leading length uncontrollably wrapped, roping around the employee's right leg from behind and pulling the employee foot-first into the picking head.  The employee's right leg was forcefully pulled into the combine up to the knee, causing multiple fractures and lacerations.

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