Incident date: 2023-10-10
NAICS industry code: 333318

An employee was using a handheld air velocity tester to check the air velocity of a rotary indexing machine. The inner turntable and baffles rotated, contacting the employee's left hand. The end of a finger was degloved to the second knuckle resulting in hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate