Incident date: 2019-03-01
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was working at a shredder. The employee's hand/right arm was wrapped around a conveyor's tail pulley; the employee suffered a broken right wrist and skin damage on the underside of the upper right arm. The employee was hospitalized. The pulley was guarded at the time of the incident.

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