Incident date: 2025-04-17
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was performing housekeeping duties when she noticed a pallet stuck on conveyor rollers. She went to adjust the pallet when her left little finger became stuck between the pallet and the curbing of the conveyor, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Conveyors  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high