Incident date: 2015-12-07
NAICS industry code: 238210

A contract employee at a host employer worksite was changing a light bulb while positioned on a stepladder when his clothing got caught on a piece of metal on a rotating shaft, pulling the worker into the machine and fracturing both forearms.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate