Incident date: 2017-09-02
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was cleaning a machine chain with a rag when the rag became caught in the chain, pulling it and the employee's left index finger into the chain. His finger was amputated to the second knuckle. The machine was unguarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high