Incident date: 2018-10-24
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was spraying and cleaning metal rollers near a conveyor belt that was in a raised position to clean underneath it. She tried to pull a piece of meat out from between the metal rollers when her right hand was pulled in by the moving conveyor belt. She sustained a broken right index finger and had her right ring and middle fingers surgically amputated. The belt was moving at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high