Incident date: 2018-11-12
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was packaging cheese when the line where the cups go in became jammed from excess cheese. While he was cleaning the area around the cups, the machine became unjammed and caught his lab coat on a metal chain. The chain then fractured his left forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate