Incident date: 2016-01-25
NAICS industry code: 332813

At approximately 2:30 p.m., on 1/25/16, an employee operating a metal polishing machine lifted a curtain to wipe down the feed rollers on the machine. The employee's left-hand little finger was caught between the feed roller and the metal plate and had to be surgically amputated at the second knuckle.

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