Incident date: 2024-03-02
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a machine. The employee was using a shop rag to clean the area when the chain and sprocket caught the rag and pulled in the employee's right hand, causing a partial amputation to the index fingertip. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high