Incident date: 2022-01-08
NAICS industry code: 321918

An employee was trying to clear a jam from a side-matcher machine. The machine's bottom head was still in motion, and its rotating knives amputated the employee's left little finger and lacerated his left ring finger. The employee was hospitalized, and the ring finger was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high