Incident date: 2015-06-24
NAICS industry code: 238340

A pile up of tiles occurred on line 8. An employee attempted to turn the conveyor off at the switch. The employee was looking at the pile while his hand was aimed at the switch. His hand missed the switch and the back of his hand made contact with the pulley and guard causing a laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate