Incident date: 2023-12-31
NAICS industry code: 112310

On December 31, 2023, an employee was performing sanitation on a packer conveyor and was walking in the passageway when their shirt collar was pulled into the conveyor above the passageway. The employee was strangled and became unconscious. The conveyor was not guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate