Incident date: 2019-02-14
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was using a wrench to adjust the belt tensioner on a screening machine when the wrench slipped off the bolt and his hand went into the belt and pulley resulting in amputation of the right pinky fingertip and a right forearm laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Construction, logging, and mining machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high