Incident date: 2017-09-07
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee's cellphone fell onto a conveyor belt while he was removing a jammed stick from the belt. As he attempted to retrieve his phone, the conveyor caught his right arm, removing flesh from his bicep and scraping his arm from his elbow to his knuckles. He was hospitalized.

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