Incident date: 2020-09-16
NAICS industry code: 322291

An employee was troubleshooting and adjusting the position of a lift table assembly  inside a bagging machine when the entire lift table assembly rotated, pinching the employee's left index finger between the pivot arm and the servo coupling. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the left index fingertip.

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