Incident date: 2024-04-02
NAICS industry code: 311615

At 6:49 AM, on April 2, 2024, an employee was assembling grinder equipment and installing the cylinder of the equipment when their left index finger became pinched between the cylinder and the grinding equipment. This resulted in the surgical amputation of the distal finger joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Rollers, cylinders
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high