Incident date: 2025-05-01
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was adjusting a misaligned ring on a tire balancing machine when the ring fell and caught their left thumb against the machine's housing. The employee sustained a fracture and partial amputation of the distal phalanx of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high