Incident date: 2017-01-09
NAICS industry code: 492110

An employee was servicing a conveyor belt system to free a jammed shirt. He was using a knife to cut away the shirt and free the jammed system when his shirt was caught by the conveyor belt. The belt then pulled his left hand between the roller, the belt, and the frame, causing burns to the back of his left hand from his knuckles to his wrist and lacerations to the underside of his left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Other burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate