Incident date: 2024-05-07
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was removing jammed lids from an automated rotary table cup machine when the lid actuator energized and pinched their thumb tip. They sustained an amputation to the thumb tip.

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, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high