Incident date: 2017-09-05
NAICS industry code: 335912

An employee was repairing/adjusting an air switch when the switch engaged. The clamps then amputated/avulsed the employee's left ring finger from the base of the nail down. The air switch 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: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high