Incident date: 2022-10-18
NAICS industry code: 311514

On October 18, 2022, at approximately 4:45 p.m., an employee was attempting to retrieve a glass jar of product that had fallen between a transition point of two conveyors. The employee's right hand made contact with the conveyor belt, causing the skin on the top of their hand to be removed. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate