Incident date: 2019-06-21
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was trying to release the brake on the engine twister of a compactor bailer using a crescent wrench. The twister motor spun out and the wrench struck the employee's right hand causing an injury that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate