Incident date: 2016-05-12
NAICS industry code: 339994

On or about 5/12/2016, an employee received a partial fingertip amputation injury while operating a paint brush hand trimmer machine, known as a hand sharp edge. While manually holding a paint brush in the machine, her finger slipped and contacted the rotating blade of the machine. The contact resulted in a partial fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high