Incident date: 2019-02-26
NAICS industry code: 314999

On February 26, 2019, at approximately 12:15 p.m., an employee at Plaspack U.S.A., Inc. was cleaning the rubber rollers on a knitter machine when a chain and sprocket located above the floor grabbed her clothes and pulled her into a rotating shaft bracket. The employee sustained crushing injuries to the top of her legs and a puncture wound.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Knitting machinery
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate