Incident date: 2019-02-17
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was using an air gun to blow and remove crumbs from the drip pan of a conveyor. The conveyor belt struck the air gun, pulling its trigger handle into a fixed conveyor support and pinching the employee's right little fingertip between the handle and the conveyor support.

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