Incident date: 2016-05-03
NAICS industry code: 32212

An employee was walking his preventative maintenance route on the wood chip conveyor belt. He reached a point where he heard a bearing making noise. The employee attempted to kick the roller with his right foot. When he kicked the roller he missed and his right foot and leg were pulled into the nip point between the roller and the conveyor belt.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate