Incident date: 2021-05-12
NAICS industry code: 332431

A turret on a piece of trimmer equipment was being manually rotated into position while offline. An employee was helping move the turret when a pinch point on it caught his right hand. He suffered an amputation to the ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high