OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221377666

QVEST SANITATION LLC

COLDWATER, MI· 2021-06-15T00:00:00

Event: Arm, Belt, Caught In, Cleaning, Conveyor, Conveyor Belt, Drive Shaft, Energized, Engineering Controls, Entangled, Food processing, Fracture, Hand, Lack of Engineering Controls, Maintenance, Meat Processing, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Rotating Parts, Rotating Shaft, Sprocket, Technician, Unguarded, Wrist
NAICS: 561720
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345393540
Employer profile: QVEST SANITATION LLC
Summary number: 221377666
Report ID: 0552652

Event description

Employee fractures arm and hand when caught in conveyor driv

Investigation abstract

At 10:15 p.m. on June 15, 2025, an employee working as a machine maintenance technician for a slaughterhouse was cleaning an energized horizontal conveyor. The employee was working directly adjacent to an unguarded revolving belt and sprocket. The employee's right hand contacted the shaft and sprocket and became entangled. The employee was hospitalized to treat fractures to his hand and arm.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
519

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