Incident date: 2018-12-11
NAICS industry code: 488510

An employee was performing maintenance on a drag chain conveyor. The equipment started and the employee was struck by the drag chain paddles causing fractures to both legs that required surgery and two fractured ribs. The conveyor was not locked out at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-chain
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate