Incident date: 2024-06-08
NAICS industry code: 335220

An employee was adjusting the gap on the shredder/grinder machine blades using a tool to manually rotate the blades when their fingers became pinched in the blades. The employee sustained amputations to the first digit of three fingers on their left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Trash compactors, shredders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high