Incident date: 2019-11-14
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was using compressed air to blow down the conveyor system when the air wand was caught by the magnetic roller, pulling the employee's hand in between the magnetic roller and the conveyor belt. The employee's middle and ring fingers were fractured.

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