Incident date: 2024-03-27
NAICS industry code: 484230

An employee was removing carton material that was lodged between the frame and chain/pulley system of an energized conveying, sorting, buffering and/or processing machine when the chain/pulley caught their right middle finger, resulting in a distal fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high