Incident date: 2022-10-27
NAICS industry code: 337211

An employee was using a 3-foot-long pipe cleaner brush to clean the rollers on a glue spreader machine. She dropped the pipe cleaner, and while retrieving it her right hand became caught in the rollers resulting in amputation to the ring finger at the second joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high