Incident date: 2016-10-18
NAICS industry code: 332996

An employee was unjamming a pipe in a grinder machine. As the pipe loosened, the door to the grinder slammed shut on his right ring fingertip, amputating it from the tip to the middle of the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high