Incident date: 2017-01-13
NAICS industry code: 326113

An employee was assisting another employee to clear a jam in the grinder. The employees were manually rotating the blades to clear the jam and the injured employee's left hand/fingers came in contact with the blade causing the amputation of the middle, ring, and pinky fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Grinders, abraders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high