Incident date: 2018-04-23
NAICS industry code: 337211

An employee was installing a gravity fed conveyor belt when his left ring finger was crushed between two conveyor systems. His left ring finger broke and had to be medically amputated at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Conveyors-gravity and nonpowered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high