Incident date: 2021-12-29
NAICS industry code: 325320

An employee was helping to manually rotate a drive belt/pulley system on the delinting centrifuge. The employee's finger was caught and pinched between the belt and the pulley. The employee pulled his hand out, resulting in a degloving of a portion of his left ring finger and a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Centrifuges
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high