Incident date: 2018-12-02
NAICS industry code: 212393

At 8:35 p.m. on December 2, 2018, an employee was on a 9- to 10-foot mobile work platform ladder, using an air hose to dry the head pulley of a feed conveyor to keep it from slipping. The employee lost balance and began to fall forward, and their right glove was caught between the conveyor belt and the head pulley. The employee was pulled in, suffering a closed fracture to the ulna and radius.

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