Incident date: 2024-12-02
NAICS industry code: 424480

On December 2, 2024, at about 4:18 PM, an employee was checking produce on a conveyor belt when their hand became caught between the belt and rollers. The employee sustained an amputation to their left ring fingertip. The machine was guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Conveyors belt, slot, chain
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high