Incident date: 2024-10-22
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was doing preventative maintenance on a paint palletizer. The employee had locked out the palletizer electrically and pneumatically. When the employee went to remove the drive chain, the pallet lowered due to gravity, resulting in the amputation of his right middle fingertip at the nail bed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Stacking machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high