Incident date: 2016-01-08
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee 
was doing maintenance on a piece of equipment that was shut down. He grabbed the motor's damper/pulley belt and pulled the belt toward himself. This caused the damper/pulley to rotate, pinning his right-hand thumb between the damper/pulley and the belt. As a result, the top part of his right-hand thumb (approximately 1/8" to 3/16") was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high