Incident date: 2020-10-19
NAICS industry code: 311421

A conveyor belt on the green bean line was slipping due to some icing on the drive motor. An employee went over to start it manually. While tugging on the belt, the employee's hand got pulled into the underside of the conveyor. The employee sustained third degree burns on his left arm and hand requiring skin grafts.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Conveyors-belt
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate