Incident date: 2019-06-26
NAICS industry code: 32739

A maintenance employee was removing a conveyor belt. The employee performed lockout/tagout and removed the guard from the V belts and pulley on the side of the head pulley. The employee then began to manually move the V belts over the pulley. His left pinky and ring finger were caught  between the V belt and pulley resulting in amputation of the top 1/4 of the employee's left pinky finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high