Incident date: 2017-02-21
NAICS industry code: 561210

An employee replaced a belt on a vacuum pump. When the employee was checking the belt alignment, his left hand ring finger was caught in a nip point causing a fingertip amputation.

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