Incident date: 2024-01-24
NAICS industry code: 311423

An employee was using a pallet wrapper machine when the chain on the roller conveyor broke. The employee fixed the chain then asked another employee to move the conveyor forward to have the chain jump back on the pulley. The employee suffered an amputation to the left middle finger.

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