Incident date: 2021-12-29
NAICS industry code: 325520

A temporary employee had finished cleaning three chains that ran under a conveyor belt. As the employee was trying to realign a chain, the machine was powered up and the chain moved. The employee suffered a pad amputation to the left index finger, a fracture to the first joint on the left index finger, and a laceration to the middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high