Incident date: 2017-08-09
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was removing a plastic wrap jam from a packaging machine when the guillotine blade came down and amputated the employee's left index fingertip. The machine was not guarded or locked/tagged out at the time of the incident.

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