Incident date: 2024-09-29
NAICS industry code: 115111

An employee was cleaning the lint machine. While manually moving the belt and pulley, their right index fingertip was caught between the belt and pulley and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
code_source: title: Picking, carding, combing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high