Incident date: 2016-02-11
NAICS industry code: 451120

An employee was doing maintenance work on a conveyor, checking to see if material or debris had fallen down under the conveyor. The conveyor was stopped and the employee went to grab something he saw underneath it.  When the person who controlled the movement of the conveyor saw the employee reach under the conveyor, he put the handheld control down to walk towards the employee. When he went to place it down, he accidentally dropped the control and it energized the conveyor. The employee was caught between the conveyor and a cross bar under the conveyor, crushing his abdomen. He was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate