Incident date: 2016-07-28
NAICS industry code: 311919

An employee was working on the rollers after the tipper belt on a machine and was replacing a band on the drive shaft. He was trying to get the new band on the drive shaft when his right thumb tip was amputated. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high