Incident date: 2017-07-07
NAICS industry code: 311421

An employee was cleaning a conveyor with a high-pressure hose when the employee's hand/forearm was caught and lacerated between the conveyor's end plate and a sprocket, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Upper extremities, unspecified
severity: moderate