Incident date: 2018-08-20
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee was changing blades on a granulator. While he was rotating the blade assembly to check the top clearance gap, the front tip of his right pinky finger became lodged between the rotating blade and stationary blade, resulting in a pinky fingertip amputation (no bone loss).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high