Incident date: 2024-07-15
NAICS industry code: 311511

An employee climbed on top of a roller conveyor to visually assess a suspected fractured pallet that was being conveyed to the finished products warehouse. The employee's safety toecap of his boot got caught in a 4-inch-wide gap separating sections of the conveyor rollers, causing him to twist his leg and fall. The employee suffered a fractured femur and finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors roller, wheel
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate