Incident date: 2022-03-15
NAICS industry code: 331421

An employee was repairing a timing belt on a machine. The machine went into "jog mode" while his hand was on a drum, and its timing belt and gear injured his right little finger. He underwent a revision amputation to the fingertip. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high