Incident date: 2020-06-25
NAICS industry code: 322233

An employee was changing the trim blade on a machine when the blade dropped on the employee's right wrist causing a laceration to the wrist that severed an artery and grazed a nerve.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate