Incident date: 2021-10-12
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was trying to free up a rotary air lock that had seized due to rust. The chain slipped over the sprockets and pulled the employee's ring finger between the chain and the sprocket. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high