Incident date: 2024-10-22
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was using a vacuum hose to clean resin residue out of a hopper. Three of his right hand fingers contacted the blades of the moving rotary lock, resulting in fingertip amputations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high