Incident date: 2025-04-16
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was shot blasting cast iron fittings. He was unjamming the blast machine and when the auger was freed it amputated his right middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Sandblasting machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high