Incident date: 2020-06-18
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was helping to clean up around a conveyor belt area. Another employee turned the conveyor on so it could move and clear some material. The employee attempted to remove a large piece of bark under the conveyor. His left arm was caught in the moving parts under the conveyor. He was hospitalized with a broken left arm and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate