Incident date: 2015-07-14
NAICS industry code: 326122

An employee was attempting to clear a product jam from a piece of processing equipment. When the product became free, the employee's hand struck a gear in the equipment resulting in a fracture to the index and little finger. The employee was hospitalized due to a surgical procedure that required the partial amputation of the little fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high