Incident date: 2022-08-18
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was removing meat from a carcass and tossing the meat onto a conveyor. When he reached through the moving cone line to retrieve a misplaced carcass, the carcass/cone caught their upper left arm and rammed it into a COVID-19 barrier pole. The employee's humerus was fractured.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper arm(s)
severity: moderate