Incident date: 2018-09-04
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was pulling back the rods of a boring machine when the rods became bound. Once they became loose, the bore rods flipped over and a bore head struck the employee's right leg, breaking bones.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate