Incident date: 2015-01-15
NAICS industry code: 332991

An employee was presetting a roller channel machine.  While presetting the chuck, a jam occurred.  The employee tried to clear the jam.  The pusher activated and pinched the tip of the employee's right index finger.  The employee went to the emergency room, which documented the injury as an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high