Incident date: 2020-10-19
NAICS industry code: 115111

Employees had shut down and locked out a cotton gin lint cleaner to clean it. An employee entered the lint cleaner and his glove was caught by the teeth of the cleaner. His glove was pulled off and the employee sustained a de-gloving injury to the top of the right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Picking, carding, combing machinery
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate