Incident date: 2016-01-21
NAICS industry code: 561910

On January 21, 2016, an employee was helping a coworker clear a packaging machine that became jammed with plastic bags. When he reached for a bag, his right thumb was crushed at the point of operation where the bags were cut into individual product packages. His right thumb broke and sustained tendon damage, requiring hospitalization. The machine was not locked out or guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate