Incident date: 2019-10-21
NAICS industry code: 332311

An employee was moving scraps on an assembly line. She was sitting down beside the conveyor belt with her hand resting on the conveyor belt. The conveyor belt is automatic and turned on. Her cotton glove was caught in the belt, resulting in the left index finger getting caught between the chain and the frame. She was hospitalized with a lacerated/broken left index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate