Incident date: 2023-07-05
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was conducting a knife change on a mechanical shear when a holder from a cassette slid down, compressing the employee between the machine housing and the cassette holder. They sustained fractures to the pelvis and right leg as well as a partially collapsed lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Shearing machines
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate