Incident date: 2017-04-12
NAICS industry code: 311351

An employee was cleaning grease from a sprocket with a rag when the rag got caught in the sprocket and pulled the employee's fingers into the sprocket and chain. The employee's right index and middle fingers were partially amputated.

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