Incident date: 2023-11-01
NAICS industry code: 493130

On November 1, 2023, four employees had just adjusted a conveyor belt from the top of a grain bin. The conveyor belt was then energized and caught an employee's right arm/hand and caused a fractured/dislocated right ulna, tears to tendons in the forearm, and required a skin graft.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate