Incident date: 2025-02-19
NAICS industry code: 311119

An employee was working to clear a jam in a conveyor belt. The employee was caught in the elevator leg while it was still running and sustained injuries to their right arm including a numb little finger, partially numb ring finger, hand degloving to the elbow, crushing injuries, lacerations, and crushing/severing injuries to tendons. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors belt, slot, chain
code_nature: title: Other multiple traumatic injuries  n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple arm locations
severity: moderate