Incident date: 2020-04-21
NAICS industry code: 311821

On April 21, 2020, an employee had just completed preventive maintenance on a conveyor's belt and bearings, and was checking how the belt was tracking, when a powered roller in the middle of the belt caught his right thumb. He suffered a degloving that resulted in a partial amputation of the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high