Incident date: 2024-11-15
NAICS industry code: 314129

An employee was using the roll buffer machine to buff cots at the yarn plant. They were using an air hose to blow off the cots and suffered partial amputations to their left index and middle fingers from the buffing wheel.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Industrial surfacing and finishing machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high