Incident date: 2022-05-09
NAICS industry code: 325211

On May 9, 2022, at approximately 9:30 p.m. a temporary employee was working on a thermal forming machine. When the employee bent down to reach for a plastic tray, she lost her balance and the moving platform came down on her right hip and fractured it. The machine was unguarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate