Incident date: 2022-04-25
NAICS industry code: 812332

An employee was working at a laundry conveyor system, moving linen from the conveyor system to a cart. She was trying to free a stuck piece of plastic from the system when her right hand was caught in a pinch point. She suffered a laceration and avulsion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate