Incident date: 2025-02-27
NAICS industry code: 312111

An employee was performing periodic maintenance on a motor that drives a belt conveyor for a line. While adjusting the chain on the conveyor, the conveyor turned back on and the employee's left thumb became caught in the chain resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors belt, slot, chain
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high