Incident date: 2025-01-16
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was manually spinning a rotor of knife blades for a shredder as part of routine maintenance. The employee's left hand slipped between two knife blades, resulting in a partial amputation of the ring finger and the amputation of the little finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Trash compactors, shredders
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high