Incident date: 2019-01-22
NAICS industry code: 333922

An employee was working on a conveyor that had just been manufactured, testing its speed. A section of the conveyor was missing rollers; this exposed the V-belt and pulley sheave. As the employee measured the belt's speed, his left ring finger was caught between the V-belt and pulley sheave and was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high