Incident date: 2017-10-09
NAICS industry code: 326112

An employee was working a bag machine when bags began falling into the machine and into the gears. While attempting to remove the bags, the employee's left index finger became jammed and amputated in a gear.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high