Incident date: 2016-04-08
NAICS industry code: 811310

A maintenance employee was greasing a bearing and could not get the grease to flow. When he put his finger on the fitting to get the grease to flow, other workers moved the motor, which amputated his right middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machine, tool, and electric parts, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high