Incident date: 2019-10-15
NAICS industry code: 332911

An employee was testing the RPM of a chain drive on an airlock valve assembly when the employee's right middle fingertip was caught in the chain drive, resulting in a fingertip amputation to the middle of the fingernail.

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