Incident date: 2018-12-11
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was repairing the control panel on the radiation therapy system. The employee bent down to pick up a dropped tool and their left hand was caught in the moving gantry causing a partial transphalangeal amputation of the middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Medical machinery and equipment, except x-ray
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high