Incident date: 2024-12-19
NAICS industry code: 441320

An employee was balancing a tire using a tire balancer machine. The employee removed the tire from the balancer and the tire's weight pulled their hand down, causing the the tire balancer shaft to amputate their left index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high