Incident date: 2017-10-04
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was attempting to clear a jam from a piece of demolition equipment used to recycle and process refuse concrete when his right arm entered the point of operation. His arm tendons and arteries were severed, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Compactors, crushers, pulverizers-earth, mineral
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate