Incident date: 2016-11-15
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was attempting to fix a belt drive in a casing machine when a coworker plugged the machine back in, causing the belt drive to engage. The employee's right index finger was then caught in a sprocket and de-gloved, resulting in a medical amputation to the first joint. The equipment was unguarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high