Incident date: 2024-01-21
NAICS industry code: 111211

During a shift change, an employee was showing another employee a potential issue on a conveyor line of potatoes that go out of the warehouse to the trucks. The employee reached under the conveyor with his hand. His finger was pulled into the conveyor sprocket and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Conveyors  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high