Incident date: 2016-08-02
NAICS industry code: 326113

An employee was performing maintenance on a plastic grinding machine. As he was attempting to dislodge a plastic piece in the machine, his left ring finger was caught between a belt and pulley, amputating the fingertip.

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