Incident date: 2022-09-21
NAICS industry code: 112112

An employee was trying to unplug an elevator leg. As the employee tried to lift the motor and drive belts to free the augers, the stored energy in an auger pulled the employee's fingers into a pulley and belt. The employee suffered an amputation to a right-hand fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high