Incident date: 2017-12-03
NAICS industry code: 326160

An employee was performing maintenance on a rotary wheel machine and attempting to make an adjustment when the employee's right arm became caught in the machine. The employee's arm had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: high