Incident date: 2024-06-07
NAICS industry code: 321219

An employee was examining filter socks in a paint tote inside a booth. The employee noticed that a sock was displaced and floating in the tote. As the employee tried to retrieve it, it became entangled in the rotating agitator inside the tote, which then entangled the employee's left hand in the sock. The employee suffered an amputation to the middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high