Incident date: 2024-11-05
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was checking a motor on a curing process when the belt slipped and caught their right hand in the conveyor belt. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the little finger, fractures to the index and middle fingers, and multiple lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors belt, slot, chain
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high