Incident date: 2024-01-31
NAICS industry code: 311999

A maintenance employee was removing grease from inside an incline conveyor system. A chain from the system wrapped around four fingers on the employee's gloved right hand and amputated the index fingertip and crushed the other three fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high