Incident date: 2025-07-07
NAICS industry code: 322211

The injured employee was cleaning parts inside a machine that makes boxes. She went to grab a piece of material when while the chain and sprocket was being manually moved and her left index finger was caught in the mechanism. The employee's fingertip was amputated with bone loss. The machine was locked out/tagged out at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high