Incident date: 2018-12-13
NAICS industry code: 325520

An employee was cleaning glue off of the rollers on a chopper when their left hand slipped into the chopper resulting in amputation of the middle and ring fingertips. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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