Incident date: 2018-12-08
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was cleaning the belt on the meatball line. While removing a meatball from the moving metal conveyor their glove was caught in a nip point and the employee's left pinky finger sustained a fracture, torn ligaments and a severe laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate