Incident date: 2025-08-13
NAICS industry code: 424470

An employee was cleaning a sheeter transfer conveyor. He was cleaning the conveyor support bars when his left hand was caught and pulled into a conveyor sprocket. He suffered a fracture, a laceration, and tendon/nerve damage to the hand and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Butchering machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate