Incident date: 2015-08-20
NAICS industry code: 321918

An employee was measuring a pallet of paper on an automated conveyor line. The conveyor cycled and the employee's finger got caught between the paper and an I-beam. The employee's left-hand middle fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Paper, books, magazines, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high