Incident date: 2016-02-17
NAICS industry code: 311919

An employee was putting cardboard into the baler.  His hand was caught in the baler door while closing it. The employee's left hand was dislocated, fractured, and lacerated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate