Incident date: 2019-04-17
NAICS industry code: 212321

A piece of iron became lodged in the jaw of a material processing plant. An employee climbed up the plant. Some material fell from the bottom of the jaw causing the counter-weight to rotate. This caused a belt to move and the employee's finger was pinned between a pulley and the belt. The employee's left ring finger was amputated to the first knuckle. The plant was locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high