Incident date: 2024-08-30
NAICS industry code: 812332

An employee was servicing machinery when the glove on his left hand got caught in the chain of the machine and pulled his thumb into the rotating chain. He suffered a partial thumb amputation.

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: Thumb(s)
severity: high