Incident date: 2025-04-17
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was operating a packaging machine when a plastic ribbon on the packaging film broke. The employee went to retrieve the broken ribbon when the machine cycled and contacted their right hand, resulting in amputation of the third and fourth fingers on the right hand. The machine was guarded at the time.

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 involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high