Incident date: 2018-02-20
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was manually lifting a gear from the rotary die cutter when the gear slipped, pinning and crushing the employee's middle fingertip and resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Gears
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high