Incident date: 2023-09-25
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was feeding sheets of corrugated paper product into the feed section of the die cutter. As he took a handful of sheets from the unit on the conveyor line and placed them into the hopper of the machine, the unit on the conveyor rolled off and struck the employee. He sustained a lower right leg fracture in two places.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Containers-variable restraint, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate