Incident date: 2018-01-23
NAICS industry code: 321212

An employee was attempting to get an infeed belt to a chipper running again. He applied pressure to the belt with his foot so the belt would gain traction. At the same time, another employee was toggling the forward and reverse switch for the belt. The first employee's right foot then became caught between the conveyor belt and the end roll of the conveyor, breaking bones in the right foot and leg area. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Chippers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple lower extremities locations, unspecified
severity: moderate