Incident date: 2017-05-06
NAICS industry code: 333514

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a machine and greasing a chain when a finger was caught in the machine's chain and sprocket resulting in partial amputation of the right thumb. The machine was not guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high