Incident date: 2015-12-07
NAICS industry code: 423930

To clear a jam, a temporary employee climbed on top of the in-feed conveyor for residential recyclable materials and struck the operating steel paddle wheel with his foot and broke his big toe.  He was admitted to the hospital as an in-patient for his injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: moderate