Incident date: 2023-06-21
NAICS industry code: 312112

An employee was fixing the automated 5-gallon bottling machine that had an empty bottle jam. When the jam was fixed, the machine activated and pinned the employee's legs between the robotic arm and the bottle racks. The employee sustained fractures to both tibias.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate