Incident date: 2018-05-02
NAICS industry code: 333999

An employee was manually helping a production line lead at a capper machine apply caps to bottles of windshield washer fluid when he noticed that a cap had fallen into the machine's chain and sprocket. He was attempting to remove the cap when the chain and sprocket amputated four of his right fingers. The machine was guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high