Incident date: 2019-10-01
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was attempting to troubleshoot an issue with a shaker table that continued to break belts connected to the oscillator. The pulley turned and pulled the employee's thumb in between the sheave and the belt, resulting in an amputation to the right thumb above the knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Construction, logging, and mining machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high