Incident date: 2018-11-06
NAICS industry code: 322211

On November 6, 2018, at 1:30 p.m., an employee incurred an amputation of the tip of his left thumb when his hand was caught between two print-down sections on a flexo-gluer-folder machine as he was closing the sections.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high