Incident date: 2023-09-12
NAICS industry code: 339112

An employee had been operating a machine. They were testing the belt tension beneath the machine when their left thumb became caught between the belts and pulleys of the machine. The employee sustained a distal thumb amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high