Incident date: 2022-09-02
NAICS industry code: 332510

An employee was blowing bearings from underneath a ball bearing assembly machine using an air hose. The air hose nozzle was pulled under the machine table, which rose and pinched the employee's right hand against a structural support. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the right thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high