Incident date: 2017-08-07
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was standing on a footstool to remove a grating guard from underneath an overhead conveyor. He lost his balance while removing a cotter pin from the grating, and his right index fingertip was caught and amputated between the pin and grating.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high