Incident date: 2022-02-01
NAICS industry code: 423850

An employee was working at an automated towel facility. As the employee was performing maintenance on a small piece towel folder, his right hand was crushed in a moving drive chain, resulting in amputation of his little finger.

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