Incident date: 2022-08-10
NAICS industry code: 423610

An employee was operating a wire cutting machine. The pay-off reel got caught on the reel racking system, which forcefully pulled the wire cutting machine into the metal racking system and the machine struck the employee's ankle. He sustained fractures of the left fibula and tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate