Incident date: 2018-06-23
NAICS industry code: 423930

At 11:40 a.m. on June 23, 2018, a conveyor jammed while an employee was sorting garbage. As he attempted to clear the jammed conveyor belt, his hand was caught and his right little finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high