Incident date: 2025-07-16
NAICS industry code: 339999

An employee was filling a blister feed on a machine and aligning a plate when her left middle finger got caught between the machine and the plate. The machine started and the blister feed came up and crushed her finger, resulting in hospitalization and a surgical fingertip amputation.

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: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high