Incident date: 2025-03-27
NAICS industry code: 424480

An employee had just finished repairing a chain and sprocket. He turned on the machinery and his sleeves got caught in the chain and sprocket. The employee sustained partial amputation of his lower left arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: high