Incident date: 2018-01-26
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was greasing the bearing on a sheet stacker machine when the machine's chain pulled his gloved right hand into the moving sprocket, amputating his right index and middle fingers to the second knuckle and partially amputating his thumb. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high