Incident date: 2017-10-01
NAICS industry code: 323110

An employee was operating a leather sewing machine when a cardboard guard dropped off the machine. As he reached to the floor to pick it up, his left pinky fingertip was caught and amputated in the drive belt where the cardboard guard had been.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Sewing, stitching machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high