Incident date: 2024-08-12
NAICS industry code: 423990

On August 12, 2024 at 9:40 PM, an employee was preparing to run a job on a machine by webbing the machine when they noticed that there was a piece of film attached to the thread chain. They were manually removing it when their left thumb was pinched between the thread chain and a sprocket, resulting in an amputation to the tip of their thumb.

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: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high