Incident date: 2024-08-21
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was listening for a noise at a rotating pulley and belt when their right thumb got caught in the pulley and belt. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the tip of their right thumb.

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