Incident date: 2022-09-26
NAICS industry code: 325412

At about 3:15 p.m. on September 26, 2022, an employee was feeding units into a packaging line when the star wheel became blocked by a tipped unit. The employee's left hand was caught in the machine, and the employee's ring finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high