Incident date: 2025-08-19
NAICS industry code: 336310

An employee was assembling the gearbox of a lower unit (of a boat motor). They used a handheld electric drill to power the lower unit's gears and inspect the assembly. A gear was out of tolerance, so the employee placed sandpaper in the gearbox to remove any burrs or other material. The employee activated the drill and their left middle finger contacted a nip point between the gears in the unit, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Transmissions, gears
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high