Incident date: 2019-03-14
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was working on the end of a spiral cooling conveyor belt. During cooling activities, the employee bent over and placed their hand at the end of the cooling conveyor belt. The metal conveyor belt met with a pointed cylindrical free spinning wheel approximately a half inch from the metal conveyor. The employee's middle finger was caught between the conveyor and the free spinning wheel resulting in an amputation injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high