Incident date: 2022-08-19
NAICS industry code: 492110

An employee was performing maintenance on a belt-tracking fault on a conveyor. The employee went under the machine to adjust the belt with a screwdriver when the rollers engaged, pulling the employee's screwdriver and right arm into the rollers. The employee sustained a forearm fracture.

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