Incident date: 2025-02-24
NAICS industry code: 311224

An employee was performing routine maintenance on a cracker, which involves removing corrugated rolls and replacing them with new rolls. The employee was putting the machine back together and installing belts and sheaves (pulleys) when a pulley slipped or fell, and caught their fingers against the floor. The employee's right ring fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Drives, belts, chains
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high