Incident date: 2022-10-29
NAICS industry code: 326113

An employee was unclogging cut-off film from a grinder rotor blade. The clogged film came loose and the employee's hand was pulled between the rotor blades. The employee's middle finger was amputated at the bottom of the nail bed; their ring finger was amputated at the middle of the nail bed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high