Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 97975.015 - Employee fractures hand when caught in a belt conveyor's rol

Accident Summary Nr: 97975.015 -- Report ID: 0522500 -- Event Date: 08/02/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1253277.015	08/09/2017		454110	Zulily, Llc

Abstract: At approximately 12:27 a.m. on August 2, 2017, an employee was operating the conveyor line. The employee noticed that a package had jammed on the underside of a belt conveyor after the label had stuck to the belt. The employee reached under the outgoing end of the conveyor to pull out the jammed package. The employee's left hand/wrist was caught in between a roller and the moving conveyor belt. The employee was transported to the hospital and was hospitalized with a fractured wrist.

Keywords: Belt Conveyor, Caught Between, Hand, Jammed, Machine Guarding, Roller--Mach/Part, Wrist

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1253277.015	38	M	Hospitalized injury		Packaging and filling machine operators

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