Incident date: 2020-07-28
NAICS industry code: 238220

Two employees were fixing a commercial washing machine. As the drum was being manually spun to bring a broken airline into view, the injured employee's left middle finger became caught in the pulley system resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Clothes washers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high