Incident date: 2015-07-15
NAICS industry code: 311615

Two maintenance employees were checking a belt on a CVP (Cold Vacuum Pack) machine and removed a guard to observe the belt slipping. An employee's finger was caught when the machine started automatically resulting in a soft tissue amputation of the third finger on his right hand.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high