Incident date: 2020-12-12
NAICS industry code: 452111

After making a bale of cardboard and plastic, an employee was trying to release the chains that helped the baler extract the bale. His right index finger was caught between the chain and the machine and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high