Incident date: 2023-01-13
NAICS industry code: 327320

An employee was placing insulation into the openings around a conveyor that entered the building through an exterior wall. The conveyor was powered on while the employee was standing on it and the employee was caught between the conveyor and conveyor shroud resulting in a compression fracture of a lower vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate