Incident date: 2017-10-20
NAICS industry code: 326220

An employee was operating a loom and attempting to remove fabric lint from it when his right hand came into contact with a moving gear that was located deep behind the fabric yarn and in the frame of the loom. His right pinky and ring fingers were amputated. The loom was running at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high