Incident date: 2019-09-16
NAICS industry code: 311941

An employee heard a noise in a machine he was working on. He made a repair and had another employee turn the machine back on. His hand was inside the machine and his right index finger was caught and severely damaged in a mechanism in the panel. He was hospitalized and had surgery. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate