Incident date: 2020-11-05
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was changing a belt on the motor of a blower machine. The employee's left ring finger was pinched between the belt and a pulley; the employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high