Incident date: 2019-12-02
NAICS industry code: 339930

An employee was observing the injection machine filling up bottles. The injection machine was moving fast, so the employee tried to make an adjustment to slow it down. The employee's finger was then caught in the pinch point area, resulting in a right middle fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high