Incident date: 2021-11-28
NAICS industry code: 561910

An employee was testing a resin piston pump used in a laminator. While holding the pump with one hand, he attached the air line to engage it. The pump pinched his finger; then, as he tried to use his other hand to free the finger, that hand was pinched as well. He suffered a finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
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