Incident date: 2024-10-01
NAICS industry code: 312120

An employee was clearing a jam inside a plastic strap cutter when the blade contacted their left middle and rings fingertips. The employee sustained amputations of approximately half of an inch of each of the fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high