Incident date: 2022-11-17
NAICS industry code: 311351

An employee and a co-worker were cleaning a packing machine. The employee was putting a bucket on the conveyor belt when the belt advanced and the employee's right index finger was caught in a pinch point, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high