Incident date: 2018-12-18
NAICS industry code: 424690

An employee was reaching to access the roller area of a conveyor belt system to clean gypsum from under a roller. His hand was caught between the roller and the conveyor belt, resulting in second and third degree friction burns to the back of his right hand. The machine was running and guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Other burns, third or fourth degree
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate