Incident date: 2019-01-16
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was rinsing cheese conveyor belts when he saw a piece of cheese on a weigh belt and attempted to remove it. His arm was then caught in the weigh belt, resulting in a broken forearm. The weigh belt was guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate