Incident date: 2017-03-23
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was clearing a jam on an indexing conveyor belt when the belt indexed unexpectedly, catching and amputating the employee's right ring finger at the first digit. The conveyor's emergency stop was not activated 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