Incident date: 2022-08-18
NAICS industry code: 531312

Employees were performing an equipment rebuild on a shipping sorter machine. While feeding the chain to other employees, who were guiding it back through the machine, the injured employee's right ring finger became caught in the chain resulting in an avulsion, laceration, and partial amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high