Incident date: 2020-05-05
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was using his gloved fingers to clean out a gunite machine's feed wheel area when his glove was caught in a pinch point. The feed wheel then caught his left index and ring fingers, resulting in the medical amputation of his index finger and requiring surgery for his ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high