Incident date: 2022-10-28
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee was troubleshooting a conveyor. While he was checking the tension on its chain, his left index and ring fingers were caught and crushed in the chain and sprocket. The employee suffered a broken left index finger and a ring fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-chain
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high