Incident date: 2024-03-08
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was inside a sand muller machine using an air hose to clean out sand. The machine was activated and a metal mixer piece lacerated their upper thigh and fractured their femur. That machine was not locked out/tagged out.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate