Incident date: 2018-08-28
NAICS industry code: 561311

An employee was cleaning an area in and around a heavy piece of equipment (machine removes products from a pallet and moves them to a conveyor belt) when the machinery lowered and crushed him, causing abdominal/internal injuries. The machinery was in motion at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate