Incident date: 2016-02-22
NAICS industry code: 339999

On February 22, 2016, two employees turned off a jammed candle-making machine to service it. As the first employee was attempting to pull something out of the machine, the second employee turned it on, crushing the first employee's right-hand middle finger. His finger was surgically amputated.

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