Incident date: 2023-06-21
NAICS industry code: 333922

An employee and an operator were working on the hydraulic arm of a shaftless machine. The employee pulled the pin to release the hydraulic arm and restarted the machine after. The machine moved and pinched the employee's glove, pulling his left index finger into the machine. The employee suffered a laceration that resulted in an amputation/avulsion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high