Incident date: 2017-12-05
NAICS industry code: 313110

An employee was standing on a motor while cleaning a carding machine. The employee was using a manually turned wheel to traverse the vacuum nozzle across the moving cylinder when his left arm was caught in the machine. He was hospitalized and his left arm was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Picking, carding, combing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: high