Incident date: 2020-03-16
NAICS industry code: 922140

An employee was operating a loom when the mechanical chain drive seized. The employee tried loosening bolts to the mechanism to free the chain drive, but that did not work. The employee then tried to manually manipulate the chain drive mechanism resulting in amputation of the right thumb tip.

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