Incident date: 2025-03-21
NAICS industry code: 311615

On March 21, 2025, an employee was clearing a piece of plastic from a conveyor belt when her right ring finger was caught in the rotating sprocket and chain. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors belt, slot, chain
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high