Incident date: 2020-01-10
NAICS industry code: 326150

An employee was watching foam blocks travel down a conveyor. A piece of plastic that was on one of the blocks got wrapped around one of the conveyer's rollers. The conveyor stopped and the employee tried to remove the piece of plastic; the conveyor started again and the employee's hand was entangled in the plastic and pulled into the roller. The employee suffered a dislocated left shoulder and elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Dislocation of joints
code_body: title: Shoulder(s) and arm(s)
severity: moderate