Incident date: 2019-10-27
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was painting a 4" pipe when he tried to clean the residual paint off the paint mixer drill bit attachment. He was using a nylon sack to wipe the excess paint off when the drill was inadvertently activated. His left pinky finger became wrapped in the nylon sack material, resulting in a finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Bags, sacks
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high