Incident date: 2016-11-01
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was dislodging a 2-foot-long pole-top cutoff when the pole became lodged on a belt. His right hand was caught between the pole-top cutoff and the belt, which resulted in the degloving of the back of his right hand and the amputation of his right pinky down to the first knuckle. He was hospitalized.

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: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: high