Incident date: 2024-04-13
NAICS industry code: 311830

An employee was positioning tortillas on a cooling conveyor belt. The machine caught and pulled on his hand, tearing a muscle in his right shoulder. He was hospitalized. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Conveyors belt, slot, chain
code_nature: title: Sprains, strains, minor tears
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate