Incident date: 2025-05-26
NAICS industry code: 722513

An employee was cleaning sections of the metal conveyor rack line. The employee picked up the conveyor rack sections and set them up perpendicular to the trough while he sprayed the food debris with the hand sprayer. There are four sections in total; after completing the first two sections, the employee lifted the third section and it fell forward. The conveyor section partially amputated the employee's left middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Conveyors  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high