Incident date: 2020-05-13
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was repairing an elevated conveyor belt that had separated and stopped turning on the rollers. He repaired the belt and re-energized the system. The belt still did not move properly, and he moved to view the mechanism from a different angle. The belt caught his left hand and pulled it into the roller mechanism. The employee's left hand was crushed and degloved.

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