Incident date: 2019-01-12
NAICS industry code: 311919

An employee was adjusting an overhead conveyor belt (8 feet in the air) on a scissor lift when her finger became pinched in an in-running nip point, resulting in a fingertip avulsion. The conveyor belt was running at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: moderate