Incident date: 2018-06-26
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was performing a headboard change out on a mold machine. The employee stepped back onto a limit switch causing the hydraulic pusher to traverse and catch the employee's left foot between the 900 psi hydraulic pusher and a fixed portion of the roller conveyor. The employee's left foot was fractured. The conveyor with hydraulic pusher was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate