Incident date: 2023-06-10
NAICS industry code: 321920

A temporary employee was on top of a conveyor servicing a robot contained within a safety cage. A sensor at the end of the conveyor was engaged, which initiated an auto cycle. The robot contacted the employee, causing him to go in the air and strike the safety cage. The employee suffered a skull fracture. The robots were guarded but not locked out/ tagged out at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate