Incident date: 2016-08-19
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was trying to unbind a conveyor chain by turning the drive pulley backwards. The chain jumped causing his left thumb to become caught and amputated in the chain and pulley.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-chain
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high