Incident date: 2018-01-29
NAICS industry code: 441310

An employee was cleaning grease marks around the drive chain area of a gear/sprocket with a shop towel. The chain caught the towel, pulling it and the employee's hand into the drive chain/sprocket. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the right index finger and three crushed fingers.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high