Incident date: 2024-01-30
NAICS industry code: 314120

An employee was operating a textile processing machine. Fill material was protruding from the feed rollers under the machine; the employee was trying to pull it out when the machine activated and began to pull it back into the feed rollers. The employee's right hand was broken, lacerated, and partially degloved.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Textile, apparel, leather production machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Other multiple traumatic injuries  n.e.c.
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate