Incident date: 2019-09-20
NAICS industry code: 327993

On September 20, 2019, an employee was operating a runoff machine. The fiberglass material started to bind up. As the employee was correcting the issue, his left hand entangled in the fiberglass strands. The strands pulled his hand in, resulting a partial amputation of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high