Incident date: 2021-03-23
NAICS industry code: 336212

An employee was putting a dislodged plastic belt section back into position on a conveyor. The conveyor shaft rotated, causing the conveyor to lacerate and fracture the employee's right thumb. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery to the thumb. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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