Conveyor Entanglement During Operation or Cleaning

The conveyor is still moving, and the nip point does not need a second chance. A missing guard, spillage, or cleaning task near the belt is the warning moment. Stop the task, isolate every energy source, verify zero energy, and keep people outside the line of fire. Restart only after controlled inspection and handback.

Conveyor Entanglement During Operation or Cleaning is presented as a decision situation. The card holds on the warning moment so a learner can notice changing conditions, identify exposed people and equipment, and choose the next safe action before escalation.

The value is not spectacle or hindsight. It is learning to recognize how fixed plant risk develops in processing & tailings work, then connecting that recognition to role-specific communication, isolation, withdrawal and escalation.

1. Stop feed and isolate all energy sources before access begins.
2. Verify zero-energy state and prevent automatic or remote restart.
3. Use approved tools, guarding and line-of-fire controls for the task.
4. Complete inspection and controlled handback before the plant restarts.

No frequency ranking is published in this preview. Incident-specific frequency and trend claims remain behind the cited-evidence gate.

Potential consequences vary by site and task. This preview avoids invented tolls, probabilities and causal certainty; approved sources and local procedures govern.