Incident date: 2025-04-29
NAICS industry code: 333992

An employee had just finished training an experienced welder on the welding manipulator machine and stepped underneath the manipulator arm. The machine bound up and the manipulator arm came down on the employee's shoulder. The employee fell to the ground and suffered fractured vertebrae and a spleen injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate