Incident date: 2025-08-06
NAICS industry code: 812320

On August 6, 2025, an employee was placing cardboard into a cardboard compactor when his right middle and index fingertips were amputated. The employee was hospitalized for hand surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Trash compactors, shredders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high