Incident date: 2022-11-29
NAICS industry code: 115111

An employee was removing plastic from a cotton module when they were struck by the flipper bar and knocked down. The flipper bar continued to come down and crushed the employee's lower leg, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Picking, carding, combing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: high