Incident date: 2019-04-01
NAICS industry code: 339994

At about 3:30 p.m. on April 1, 2019, an employee was operating an angle broom machine. A bundle of broom bristles had not loaded correctly in the feed table; the employee was straightening the bundle when the machine cycled, amputating the employee's left little fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high