Incident date: 2022-02-23
NAICS industry code: 311211

On February 23, 2022, an employee was operating an automatic palletizer machine. The employee approached the chain conveyor to adjust a crooked slip sheet on a pallet when their pullover sweatshirt sleeve was caught in the moving chain conveyor. The employee slipped on the concrete floor while attempting to free the sleeve from the chain conveyor and fell, sustaining a fractured left arm above the elbow. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slipping
code_source: title: Floor, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper arm(s)
severity: moderate