Incident date: 2019-03-14
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was repairing a motorized boom conveyor used to load trailers. The employee used an open end wrench as a pry tool in an attempt to correct the tracking of the conveyor belt near the end pulley. When the unit was actuated to start to the re-track process, the wrench moved and pinched the employee's right pinky finger against a hard metal surface, amputating the finger from the first joint.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high