Incident date: 2022-08-24
NAICS industry code: 488210

An employee noticed that a four-high stack of new wheels were not stacked straight on a conveyor line. The employee grabbed the second wheel from the bottom and began to rotate the wheels to straighten the stack. As he began turning them, the conveyor began feeding forward and the wheels fell, pinching his left hand between the wheels. His index, middle, and ring fingers were broken.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Wheels, tire rims
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate