Incident date: 2025-02-13
NAICS industry code: 333249

An employee was changing a fixed blade on a scarfing machine and could not get the bit to seat in the correct position. While checking for an obstruction, his middle finger contacted an adjacent piece of machinery, a chopper, that amputated his middle fingertip just behind the nailbed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high