Incident date: 2018-06-30
NAICS industry code: 333924

At 6:45 a.m. on June 30, 2018, two employees were rebuilding a truck's transmission. They started the truck after replacing the bearings. The back shaft caught one employee's hair, pulling his scalp away from his head and partially amputating one of his ears. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: high