Incident date: 2024-01-17
NAICS industry code: 491110

An employee and co-workers were on the upper level of a machine while observing and listening for loud/worn rollers in the machine. After identifying the noisy bearing, the employee stepped away from the machine and her hand touched the incline belt. The belt pulled her hand into the idler roller, causing it to get wedged between the roller and the incline belt. The belt was stopped and the employee's hand was worked out from the roller. The employee suffered a hand injury, including friction burns, that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Other or multiple types of burns  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate