Incident date: 2023-04-29
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was working on the assembly line when he stopped the machine to remove stuck rubber material. After freeing the rubber material, the blade on the machine came down and lacerated his left little and ring fingers. The left ring fingertip was medically amputated. The machine was guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high