Incident date: 2019-08-31
NAICS industry code: 488991

An employee was cleaning the transfer system located at the back of a building. His hand was on a pipe when the sliding gate to the transfer system closed back to its original position, resulting in the amputation of all five left-hand fingers (knuckles and up). The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

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