Incident date: 2021-02-03
NAICS industry code: 332710

On February 4, 2021, an employee was documenting a loose drive chain within a machine and used their finger to lift the chain to take a picture of it. The employee's fingertip became caught in the sprocket, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The machine was in operation at the time.

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