Incident date: 2015-10-03
NAICS industry code: 311822

An employee had greased a chain drive on a label machine. He was cleaning excess lubricant with a paper towel when the towel got caught in the sprocket and pulled his finger in, amputating his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Product labeling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high