Incident date: 2019-10-17
NAICS industry code: 326160

On October 17, 2019, an employee was using a shrink wrap machine to wrap cardboard boxes of plastic bottles on a pallet when his right thumb was caught in the wrapping process, causing a soft tissue amputation.

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