Incident date: 2024-11-20
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was cleaning the rotary valve on a grinder. He went to use a scraper to remove accumulation from shredding when the machine caught his right hand. The machine amputated three fingers and damaged the fourth. He required surgery. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Trash compactors, shredders
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high