Incident date: 2019-08-15
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was replacing a drive belt on a locked-out conveyor. The pulley was turned from the other side, and his thumb was caught between the pulley and the belt. He suffered a soft-tissue amputation (losing the skin and the nail) from his left thumb just below the thumbnail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high