Incident date: 2024-03-01
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was conducting preventive maintenance on a jointer machine. As he was cleaning a chain with a rag, it pulled in his right hand, causing the amputation of his index fingertip and a partial amputation to his middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Boring, planing, milling machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high