Incident date: 2023-04-21
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was removing a piece of rubber from underneath a rail car. The employee's leg was caught between the tail pulley and the conveyor belt, resulting in leg and ankle fractures. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate