Incident date: 2024-09-03
NAICS industry code: 331512

An employee was dislodging a part that was stuck in the shot blasting machine when the part released and shifted, catching the employee's left middle finger between the part and the belt of the machine. The employee pulled his hand away and sustained a fingertip amputation.

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