Incident date: 2022-03-23
NAICS industry code: 111219

An employee was working behind the platform cutting and placing romaine lettuce heads on a table. A plastic bag used to package the lettuce flew up into a conveyor belt toward one of the rollers. The employee went to grab the bag and the belt caught the sleeve of his shirt pulling his right arm into the machine and around the roller. The employee suffered fractures and lacerations that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper extremities, unspecified
severity: moderate