Incident date: 2019-11-05
NAICS industry code: 511110

An employee was cleaning the guard of a press machine with a rag when the rollers of the machine caught the corner of the rag and dragged the employee's right middle finger, resulting in a degloving injury from the distal interphalangeal joint to the tip of the finger. The employee's fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Presses-printing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high