Incident date: 2016-12-17
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was cleaning a conveyor well when the cuff of the employee's coat became caught on the conveyor and pulled the employee's right arm into the sprocket, fracturing it. The conveyor was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident.

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: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate