Incident date: 2024-02-06
NAICS industry code: 339991

An employee was using a powder dispenser machine used to fill carbon tubes. The machine was not dispensing powder; the employee was investigating a possible blockage in the hopper when a rotating part in the machine caught his left hand. He suffered partial amputations to two fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Special process machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high