Incident date: 2024-05-21
NAICS industry code: 493120

An employee was cleaning around a cog belt when their rag got caught in the belt and pulled the employee's hand into the belt resulting in amputations to two of the employee's fingertips. The cog belt 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