Incident date: 2022-02-24
NAICS industry code: 322230

On February 24, 2022, an employee was trying to remove a jam on a machine that was in front of a trim blower's fan intake. The employee's right hand contacted the blower fan blade. The employee suffered an injury to the middle finger that necessitated a medical revision amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Bindery machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high