Incident date: 2025-07-24
NAICS industry code: 327999

An employee was running the cuber machine (moves and stacks blocks onto pallets) in the block plant. He went to manually move some blocks and the carriage of the cuber moved and pinned his midsection (abdomen, pelvis, and lower back region). The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his bottom two ribs and L3 vertebra. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Stacking machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate