Incident date: 2024-09-16
NAICS industry code: 221210

An employee was monitoring a palletizer machine that stacks propane tanks when their shirt blew into the grippers on the palletizer. The employee used his right hand to brace himself and his hand was caught between the gripper and a propane tank resulting in a fracture, laceration and tendon injury to the right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Stacking machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures and soft tissue injuries
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate