Incident date: 2023-03-15
NAICS industry code: 327320

An employee was troubleshooting a robot palletizer. He was trying to move the equipment when the robot finger froze and clamped his right hand. He suffered an amputation to the little finger and a laceration to the ring finger.

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