Incident date: 2017-05-01
NAICS industry code: 311423

An employee was attempting to put a pick conveyor's idler roller back in its track when his left hand was caught between the idler roller and the conveyor (pick) belt. His skin was removed from the back of his left hand, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate