Incident date: 2020-12-18
NAICS industry code: 423930

On December 18, 2020, an employee was walking through a plant next to a conveyor. The employee's safety vest got caught in a rotating chain and sprocket that powered the conveyor. As he tried to free himself, his gloved left hand was pulled into the sprocket and his fingers were lacerated. He suffered amputations to the fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-chain
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high