Incident date: 2018-01-23
NAICS industry code: 541870

An employee was cleaning a filling machine when he observed defective caps locked in the supply channels to the capper. He put the capper in manual mode and manually moved the joint with his left hand as he tried to remove the crowns with his right hand. During this operation, one of his fingers entered the moving machine, severing his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high