Incident date: 2021-08-20
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was scaling meat prior to filling in pouches on a bag former machine when their right-hand fingers were pinched in the machine, resulting in a laceration and partial amputation of the middle fingertip and a laceration of the ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high