Incident date: 2024-07-23
NAICS industry code: 332439

An employee was troubleshooting a pail turn over machine. The employee held a chain and sprocket and the unguarded machine unexpectedly started, catching the employee's fingers in the machine. The employee sustained fingertip amputations to the left ring and middle fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high