Incident date: 2021-07-01
NAICS industry code: 311423

An employee was setting up film on a small pack machine. The first bag became stuck on the tape and when the employee grabbed the bag, the machine started. The employee's left index finger contacted the machine's knife bar, resulting in an amputation of about 1/2 inch of the finger.

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