Incident date: 2017-06-05
NAICS industry code: 322299

An employee was walking between a bagger gate and bagger snout of a bagger machine operated by a coworker when the coworker cycled the bagger machine. The mechanical bagger gate then struck and crushed the employee's left leg, breaking it and requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate