Incident date: 2024-08-22
NAICS industry code: 221114

On August 22, 2024, an employee was unclamping a corner machine to unjam debris when the machine released air pressure and the employee's left ring finger was caught by a cylinder. The employee sustained an amputation to his left ring finger.

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: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high