Incident date: 2019-12-03
NAICS industry code: 333319

On December 3, 2019, at 8:45 a.m., an employee was operating a drill press to drill holes in a block of material when his sweatshirt strings became wound in the spindle of the drill press, strangling him. He was found unconscious and hospitalized with short-term memory loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Drills-stationary
code_nature: title: Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate