Incident date: 2019-12-10
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was on top of a shot blaster pushing down metal shots from a sight glass into the auger when the auger caught the employee's hand and pulled his arm into the shot blaster. He sustained vascular damage in his arm and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate