Incident date: 2024-01-19
NAICS industry code: 323111

An employee was trying to remove a jam from a baler machine. The employee restarted the system, then bent to check it after realizing that the bale was still not moving forward. A baler wire snapped and hit him in the head; his head then hit the door of the machine. He lost consciousness and suffered a skull fracture and head laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries with skull fractures
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate