Incident date: 2017-01-04
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was using a pallet machine and was trying to clear a nail that was jammed in a nail bowl when the nailer came down and amputated the employee's left pinky fingertip. The machine was not locked/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high