Incident date: 2018-01-08
NAICS industry code: 333996

An employee was aligning key-ways for an assembly of a bull gear with the crankshaft when his right pinky finger was caught between the bull gear teeth and the gear teeth on the end of the pinion. His fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high