Incident date: 2015-12-05
NAICS industry code: 311111

An employee was cleaning a running conveyor machine. The employee lost balance and put a hand up to catch themselves. The employee's hand and arm were pulled into the machine by a pulley, resulting in multiple hand fractures that required surgery. The pulley was unguarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate