Incident date: 2018-07-25
NAICS industry code: 325193

An employee was replacing gaskets on a disc stack centrifuge and using a specialized tool to pull the disc stack when the employee's left ring finger was caught between the tool and the stack, resulting in a partial distal amputation of the left ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Centrifuges
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high