Incident date: 2022-02-03
NAICS industry code: 326212

An employee was using a machine to add tread to a commercial tire casing. As the employee removed the spliced tread from the rollers, their left thumb contacted a retracted blade on the machine and they suffered a partial amputation to their left index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high