Incident date: 2024-02-21
NAICS industry code: 493110

A maintenance employee was removing a guard on the chain and sprocket drive of a conveyor system when their hand slipped and was pulled into an in-running nip point. Multiple fingers on the employee's right hand were crushed. The employee sustained amputations to his thumb, index, and little fingers on his right hand. The ring finger was dislocated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high