Incident date: 2020-05-02
NAICS industry code: 311423

A metal chip used to test the metal detector had fallen off the conveyor. As an employee reached to retrieve the metal chip, her cotton glove was caught by a sprocket. Her arm and hand were pulled around the bar attached to the sprocket. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery on her wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate