Incident date: 2016-05-31
NAICS industry code: 321912

An employee's finger was caught in a chain sprocket when he was replacing a belt resulting in amputation of the right pinky finger to the first knuckle.

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