Incident date: 2024-04-15
NAICS industry code: 322121

At 9:15 a.m. on April 15, 2024, an employee was helping troubleshoot limit switches in the ream stacker part of a carton-packing machine. The machine actuated, and an upward-moving plate elevator struck the employee's right thumb. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high