Incident date: 2022-03-03
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was using a pallet stringer notcher. A piece of pallet stringer became lodged in the machine. The employee was trying to remove it when his glove was caught and his hand was pulled into the blades of the notcher. All four fingers and part of the employee's thumb on the right hand were amputated. The machine was not locked out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high