Incident date: 2024-02-04
NAICS industry code: 311351

An employee was sanitizing a conveyor belt with a wipe when their right hand fingers were caught between the gauging roller and the belt, resulting in partial amputations to three fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors belt, slot, chain
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high