Incident date: 2024-06-24
NAICS industry code: 311513

A maintenance technician was removing a glove from a machine when it started and a moving belt inside the machine caught their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high