Incident date: 2018-01-03
NAICS industry code: 331221

On January 3, 2018, an employee was feeding/aligning a steel strip on an automatic welder. The employee was inside the welder attempting to remove a label from a steel strip when the welder operator activated the welder, which closed on and fractured the employee's right femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate