Incident date: 2017-01-11
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was attempting to remove a piece of wood that was lodged between the rollers and a piece of metal on the conveyor belt using a wrench. The employee's gloved hand was caught in the machine resulting in the amputation of the right pinky fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high