Incident date: 2018-12-26
NAICS industry code: 326140

An employee was cleaning rollers on an extruder with a rag. The employee's right arm was caught in an ingoing nip point, suffering an injury that required hospitalization and surgery. Lockout/tagout was not in effect and the nip point did not have a guard at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate