Incident date: 2019-09-09
NAICS industry code: 112310

An employee turned off a conveyor belt to pull out a skid that had gotten stuck. While his hand was inside the machine, the machine was turned on again. The employee was hospitalized for injuries to his left hand which require surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate