Incident date: 2022-03-29
NAICS industry code: 813319

An employee was loading clothing into the baler machine when the machine caught her left arm wedging the arm between the front, interior wall of the baler machine's bale chamber door and the presser. The employee sustained multiple lacerations and arm fractures that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate