Incident date: 2022-03-05
NAICS industry code: 326140

An employee was working on an automatic cutting line. Noticing that the chain had slipped off the gear that moved the material down the line, the employee accessed the machine area and tried to place the chain back on the gear. The employee's left hand became entangled in the chain, and the employee suffered amputation of the left ring finger up to the knuckle and lacerations to the left middle and little fingers. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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