Incident date: 2017-11-20
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was under a machine's conveyor system trying to clear a jam. When the jam was free, a helper turned the machine back on. His hand was then pulled into the conveyor system, causing soft tissue trauma, swelling, and bruising that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate