Incident date: 2024-11-13
NAICS industry code: 335912

An employee was performing preventative maintenance and lubricating the chain on a machine when the chain pulled the rag the employee was using into the machine, resulting in amputation of the employee's left index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high