Incident date: 2022-09-07
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was working on a sprocket for a conveyor. An adjacent conveyor was turned on and caught a welder's blanket that had been covering part of it. The blanket wrapped around the employee's left foot and dragged the employee's leg into the conveyor, causing severe injury to the leg and the foot. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Conveyors-chain
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate