Incident date: 2024-06-17
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was servicing an automatic load machine that raises up and down. The equipment lowered approximately 1 inch and their right middle finger got caught between a chain and pulley, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Material handling and warehousing machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high