Incident date: 2018-06-12
NAICS industry code: 333517

An employee was running a machine that dresses a form on a grinding wheel. The employee was cleaning off the grinding wheel when their right index finger was pinched between the grinding wheel and the dressing wheel amputating it at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high