Incident date: 2022-11-03
NAICS industry code: 311213

An employee was shutting down at the end of a shift when he noticed dust was jamming his machine. When the employee cleared the jam, his fingers made contact with the rotary airlock blade, resulting in the amputation of the middle finger right below the fingernail and the ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high