Incident date: 2021-07-16
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was inspecting a malfunction in the wire tie of a baler. The tension release bar engaged and caught the employee's right index fingertip resulting in an open fracture and partial amputation.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high