Incident date: 2023-05-30
NAICS industry code: 311811

An employee was cleaning an oven push pan conveyor belt. While cleaning the top of the conveyor belt, the pan pusher activated, causing it to move and strike the employee's leg and pin it against the conveyor belt track. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

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: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate