Incident date: 2024-12-05
NAICS industry code: 423730

An employee was cleaning off a magnetic table when their right hand brushed against the wheel of a running grinder. The employee sustained an amputation of the middle fingertip and an injury to the ring fingertip with a loss of tissue that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high