Abstract: Employee #1, a machinist, was called to fix hose clamp assembly machine #7. This machine was relatively new, having been assembled in place about a year earlier; Employee #1 was the primary person involved in the machine's mechanical fine-tuning and it was still being debugged at the time of the accident. Employee #1 was attempting to fix the machine when his index finger became caught at the in-running point of a plated conveyor system that fed clamp strips into another part of the machine. The bone was severed above the first joint, and his fingertip remained attached only by a strip of flesh. Ultimately, the bone was put together with pins and the skin sutured, although a small portion of the fingertip could not be saved. Employee #1 returned to work after 28 days. Three months later, he was still experiencing chronic pain and fatigue of his entire hand. He possibly suffered permanent neurological damage. Employee #1 failed to lockout the machine prior to initiating repairs.