Incident date: 2025-02-25
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was observing the pallet painting line. The employee went to remove a piece of plastic from the rotating drive shaft of the chain conveyor when their glove/hand became entangled in the plastic which pulled the employee's arm into the rotating shaft. The employee sustained fractures to the right radius and ulna.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors belt, slot, chain
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate