Incident date: 2025-03-04
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was cleaning a tail pulley machine with a compressed air hose when the air hose nozzle got caught in the machine and pulled his hand in. The employee sustained amputation of the ring fingertip and a degloving of his hand. The machine was not guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: high