Incident date: 2018-01-12
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was verifying that a tire balancer machine was calibrated when his fingertip was caught and smashed between the machine's contracting panels. His fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high