Incident date: 2016-09-08
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was standing between a parked forklift and the discharge side of an automatic-ejecting baler. The baler pushed out a bale and pinned the employee's calf between the bale and the fork of the forklift, lacerating the employee's lower leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate