Incident date: 2015-04-07
NAICS industry code: 339112

An employee was troubleshooting an assembly line in the needle assembly area. When he bent over to look at the bottom of the machine, he rested his hand on a guard on the belt assembly. His finger overlapped with the edge of the guard, tripping a motion sensor that activated the machine push bar. His right-hand middle finger got caught between the push bar and the machine.

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