Incident date: 2018-12-09
NAICS industry code: 721110

An employee was moving items from an industrial washer to an industrial dryer. The employee grabbed the laundry with her right hand. The washing machine kept spinning and the employee's right arm got stuck in the laundry resulting in a dislocated elbow and torn ligaments and tendons.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Clothes washers
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, etc.
code_body: title: Elbow(s) and arms(s)
severity: moderate