Incident date: 2020-01-18
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was working on the sort line when it became jammed. He had to go onto the line to remove a wire that was twisted in the conveyor. When the wire was removed, he entered an area above the chute. Once the belt was restarted, he missed a step and fell down the chute, landing on the pile of refuse below. He suffered multiple lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Chutes
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate