Incident date: 2018-12-07
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was working to clear a piece of trash from a roller on a pallet sorting machine. The roller control actuated causing a piece of plastic trash to wrap around the top part of the employee's left ring finger and pinch it. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the left ring finger just below the nail bed. The roller was not guarded at the time.

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