Incident date: 2019-06-25
NAICS industry code: 311230

An employee was operating a bagging machine at a cereal plant. The machine's jaws (which shut and sealed bags) caught the employee's left index finger and amputated it.

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