Incident date: 2024-05-20
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was working on a two-person band saw, tearing down pallets for their components. The drawstring on the employee's pants was pulled into the cooling fan on the saw's drive motor, resulting in lacerations to their right thigh and left knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Stationary saws  band
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Knee(s) and leg(s)
severity: moderate