Incident date: 2024-05-01
NAICS industry code: 491110

An employee was cleaning up the edge of a conveyor belt when the belt cutting tool jumped out of its track and then returned to the track. This caused the injured employee's hand to slip, resulting in partial amputations to his left index and middle fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors belt, slot, chain
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high