Incident date: 2020-01-12
NAICS industry code: 311511

An employee was doing preventive maintenance on a gallon caser, cycling the cylinders to identify leaking cylinders or sticking solenoids. He noticed some buildup on the fingers of the machine and was trying to determine how much buildup was present when the fingers crushed his right index finger, removing about half his fingernail and some tissue above the bone.

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