Incident date: 2016-11-05
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was using an air hose to blow off the router bit on a router machine. The employee's sleeve was caught in the rotating router bit, pulling his arm into the rotating equipment. He suffered a laceration on his right elbow up to his armpit. The router machine was in operation at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Elbow(s) and arms(s)
severity: moderate