Incident date: 2022-10-12
NAICS industry code: 332813

An employee was completing maintenance to adjust a plating barrel on a saddle. The employee reached over the drive shaft and their shirt became caught in the shaft. As the employee reached to dislodge their shirt, the employee's glove became caught in the drive shaft, causing amputation of the right ring and little fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Painting, priming, metal coating machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high