Incident date: 2017-12-02
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was cleaning a belt conveyor with a pressure washer when his smock was caught on a rotating shaft in the conveyor. As he tried to free his smock, his hand was caught and injured in a sprocket, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate