Incident date: 2018-09-14
NAICS industry code: 493190

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on an overhead conveyor. While he was removing a belt from a pulley, his gloved hand slipped between rollers and was pinched causing an avulsion injury requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-live roller
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate