Incident date: 2021-03-23
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was working on a vertical chain drive on a dumper. When the employee tried to take slack out of the back side of the chain, the carriage of the dumper shifted down a few inches. The chain on the drive sprocket tightened and the employee's right middle finger was caught between the chain and the sprocket. The finger was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high