Incident date: 2019-09-26
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was replacing a bearing on a pulley. While the employee was lifting the centering roller, the conveyor belt pinched the employee's left middle finger. The finger was surgically amputated at the first digit.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high