Incident date: 2020-03-19
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was scrubbing the framework of a conveyor belt. The belt had been removed. The sprockets on the running shaft snagged the employee's jacket and pulled his arm between the framework and the shaft. The employee suffered lacerations and other injuries to the lower left arm and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate