Incident date: 2015-01-13
NAICS industry code: 326111

An employee was working at Extruder #2 (piece of equipment used to melt plastic).  As equipment was started up, a piece of equipment blew off the machine and hit the employee in the leg.  The leg was severely gashed. EMS was called and the employee was transported to UMass Medical Center in Worcester, MA.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate